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Actress is a film of genre Drama directed by Kaneto Shindō with Nobuko Otowa
Actress (1956)
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Add to a movie listAn Actress (女優, Joyū) is a 1956 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo.
Actors
Nobuko Otowa
(Kakuko Mori)
Chikako Hosokawa
(Tsukiko, Kakuko's mother)
Shinsuke Ashida
(Shinichirō Yagi)
Sumiko Hidaka
(Yugiku Yoshiya)
Taketoshi Naito
(Akio Satomi)
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