Beauty and the Thief (1952)
Overview
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.
Cast
Machiko Kyō
Sakin
Masayuki Mori
Kuroki no Taro
Rentaro Mikuni
Kuroki no Jiro
Takashi Shimura
Yoshimichi
Minoru Chiaki
Takeichi no Takamaru
Bokuzen Hidari
Yūnosuke Itō
Dohachi
Tanie Kitabayashi
Mrs. Inokuma
Yūko Mochizuki
Kotora
Ichirō Sugai
Mr. Inokuma
Eijirō Tōno
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