Movie: Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Top 10 Billed Cast

Ayako Wakao
若尾文子

Tamae

Junichiro Yamashita
山下洵一郎

Kisuke

Tamao Nakamura
中村玉緒

Omitsu

Kō Nishimura
西村晃

Chubei

Jun Hamamura
浜村純

Doctor

Saburo Date
伊達三郎

Choshichi

Taiji Tonoyama
殿山泰司

Monk

Yūsaku Terashima
寺島雄作

San'emon Arashi
十一代目 嵐三右衛門

Koishima

Ichirō Amano
天野一郎

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    Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

  • Release Date

    1963-10-05

  • Average

    7.6

  • Rating:

    3.8 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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