What Price Love? (1960)
Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)
Director:
Kenji Misumi
Writers:
Teinosuke Kinugasa, Seiichi Funahashi.
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Fujiko Yamamoto as Komako Shirokoya |
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Katsuhiko Kobayashi as Chuhachi |
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Mieko Kondō as Ogin |
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Minoru Chiaki as Matashiro |
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Ryūzō Shimada as Tango Abe |
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Ganjirō Nakamura II as Shozaburo Shirokoya |
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Chikako Hosokawa as Otsune Shirokoya |
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Fujio Murakami as Seizaburo |
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Ichirō Izawa as Seibei |
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Ryōsuke Kagawa as Chobei Kagaya |
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San'emon Arashi as |
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Saburo Date as |
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Setsuko Hama as |
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Kanae Kobayashi as |
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Rumiko Komachi as |
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Teruko Ōmi as |
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Kimiko Tachibana as |
| Directing | Kenji Misumi | Director |
| Writing | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Screenplay |
| Writing | Seiichi Funahashi | Screenplay |
| Editing | Kanji Suganuma | Editor |
| Art | Akira Naitō | Art Direction |
| Sound | Ichirō Saitō | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Hiroshi Imai | Director of Photography |