Movie: Bridge of Japan

Top 10 Billed Cast

Chikage Awashima
淡島千景

Otaka Inaba

Ayako Wakao
若尾文子

Ochise

Fujiko Yamamoto
山本 富士子

Kiyoha Takinoya

Ryūji Shinagawa
品川隆二

Shinso Kuzuki

Hiroshi Kawaguchi
川口浩

Eijirō Yanagi
柳永二郎

Shinpachiro Kasahara

Eiji Funakoshi
船越英二

Shinpachiro Kasahara

Eiichi Takamura
高村栄一

Kiyoha's Husband

Kan Sugi
杉寛

Teruko Kishi
岸辉子

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    Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.

  • Release Date

    1956-10-01

  • Average

    7.3

  • Rating:

    3.6 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語

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