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The Lady of Musashino is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Kenji Mizoguchi with Kinuyo Tanaka
The Lady of Musashino (1951)
Musashino fujin
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Add to a movie listThe Lady of Musashino (武蔵野夫人, Musashino-Fujin) is a 1951 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. The script for the film was adapted by Mizoguchi from the best-selling serial novel by Shōhei Ōoka.
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Michiko Akiyama (Kinuyo Tanaka) is married to Tadao Akiyama (Masayuki Mori), a college professor, a vulgar man with a low-class background. Towards the end of World War II, they flee the Bombing of Tokyo to her parent’s estate in Musashino, a pastoral location in the outskirts of Tokyo. Nearby is her cousin, Eiji Ono (So Yamamura), a wartime profiteer with loose morals, and his wife Tomiko (Yukiko Todoroki). After the end of the war, the extended family is joined by Tsutomu Miyaji (Akihito Katayama), another cousin and former prisoner-of-war.Actors
Kinuyo Tanaka
(Michiko Akiyama)
Yukiko Todoroki
(Tomiko Ono)
Masayuki Mori
(Tadao Akiyama)
Sō Yamamura
(Eiji Ono)
Eitarō Shindō
(Shinzaburo Miyaji)
Noriko Sengoku
(Maid in the Ono house)
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