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Actress is a film of genre Drama directed by Kaneto Shindō with Nobuko Otowa

Actress (1956)

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Length 1h44
Directed by
Genres Drama
Rating68% 3.408123.408123.408123.408123.40812

An 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)
And :
Tanie Kitabayashi
Eitarō Ozawa
Koreya Senda
Eijirō Tōno
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