Movie: The Living Koheiji

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Senjaku Nakamura
Senjaku Nakamura

Kohada Koheiji

Kaoru Yachigusa
八千草薫

Ochika

Hisashi Igawa
井川比佐志

Takuro

Yasuko Nakada
中田康子

Atsuko Ichinomiya
一の宮あつ子

Otane

Akira Tani
谷晃

Innkeeper

Ichirō Shimizu
清水一郎

Actor 1

Sonosuke Sawamura
二代目 澤村宗之助

Actor 2

Minosuke Yamada
山田巳之助

Dressing room keeper

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    The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.

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    1957-08-04

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