Movie: The Morning Sun Shines

Top 6 Billed Cast

Takako Irie
入江たか子

girl in the elevator

Joji Oka
岡譲司

(as Susumu Minobe): Hiroo Karasaki, Head of Delegation

Kōju Murata
Kôju Murata

Kusaka

Eiji Nakano
中野英治

Hayafusa

Ranko Sawa
澤蘭子

Asako Akizuki

Heitaro Doi
Heitaro Doi

Kōhei Akizuki

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    The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of footage has survived.

  • Release Date

    1929-04-12

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    5.5

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