Beauty (1946)
Overview
The story is based on the life of a poet who lived in Japan in the Taisho era. When her fiancé is arrested she believes he has suddenly disappeared and that he has abandoned her. She faces a dilemma. Despite her family being of a high class, they do not have money, which means she has to get married to someone who does. This drives her to marriage with an older man whose sole affection is directed at her looks and outside. Then she meets her freed fiancé.
Cast
Setsuko Hara
Keiko
Susumu Fujita
Shinichi Tazawa
Masao Shimizu
Eitarō Shindō
Densuke Isaka
Toshiko Hatori
Tsuyuko Sakuramachi
Haruo Tanaka
Yuriko Hanabusa
Tomi
Rikie Sanjō
SadakoRecommendations
El Chicano
Harmonium
All Day and a Night
Tigertail
The Young One
What Maisie Knew
One Million Yen Girl
Salomé
Scandalous Sex
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Nest
Skin
Girl in the Box
The Ballad of Narayama
I'm Not Here
The Girl in the Book
The Truth About Emanuel
Ice Castles
Hands of Stone
The Pumpkin Eater