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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Kenji Mizoguchi with Yōko Umemura
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
Zangiku monogatari
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Add to a movie listThe Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (残菊物語, Zangiku monogatari), also translated as The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, is a 1939 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Many regard the film as Mizoguchi's greatest pre-war achievement, praising its long takes and mise-en-scène composition.
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The film is set in Japan in 1885. Kikunosuke Onoe, played in his movie debut by the stage actor Shotaro Hanayagi, is the adoptive son of a famous Kabuki actor, who is training to succeed his father in an illustrious career. While hypocritically praising Onoe's acting to his face, the rest of his father's troupe deride him behind his back. Otoku (Kakuko Mori), the young wet-nurse of Onoe's adoptive father's infant son, is the only one frank enough to disclose his artistic shortcomings and urge him to improve himself. When Otoku is dismissed by Onoe's family for her closeness to the young master, with its potential for scandal, Onoe is outraged and leaves Tokyo to hone his art away from his father, much to the latter's wrath.Actors
Yōko Umemura
(Osata)
Nobuko Fushimi
(Geisha Eiryu)
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