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Beauty and the Thief (1952)

★ 9.0/10 80 min Adventure, Drama, History Japan Japanese
Director: Keigo Kimura
Novel: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Screenplay by: Keigo Kimura
Streaming: Not available

Description

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.

Top Cast

Machiko Kyō
Machiko Kyō Sakin
Masayuki Mori
Masayuki Mori Kuroki no Taro
Rentaro Mikuni
Rentaro Mikuni Kuroki no Jiro
Takashi Shimura
Takashi Shimura Yoshimichi
Minoru Chiaki
Minoru Chiaki Takeichi no Takamaru
Bokuzen Hidari
Bokuzen Hidari
Yūnosuke Itō
Yūnosuke Itō Dohachi
Tanie Kitabayashi
Tanie Kitabayashi Mrs. Inokuma

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