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Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi is a japonais film of genre Comedy directed by Kaneto Shindō with Frankie Sakai
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi (1959)
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Add to a movie listHanayome-san wa sekai-ichi (花嫁さんは世界一) is a 1959 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo.
Actors
Frankie Sakai
(Taro Fujikawa)
Izumi Yukimura
(Kimiko Ishikawa)
Nobuko Otowa
(Ashiya Midori)
Kumi Mizuno
(Hatsue Taniguchi)
Koreya Senda
(Kimiko's father)
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