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Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this soft-focused romance about love and obligation, based on a novel by Kafu Nagai. Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced to give up her young daughter to the merchant's family. The film opens with her working in a high-class brothel abutting Tokyo Bay. Though she has passionate affection for a drug wholesaler, whom she loves as well, Kaede is swamped with not only debts to the bordello and family obligations -- she is expected to support her parents and her sister -- but also guilt over losing her child. This pain is only increased when Kaede learns that her daughter is being abused. She does the only thing she can: She buys back her child by signing on at the brothel for a longer stint.
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1993-05-29
- video_camera_front Companies Shochiku, Sedic, TV Asahi, The Asahi Shimbun
- timer Runtime: 98 Mins
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- info IMDB ID tt0108639
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Sayuri Yoshinaga
Onami
Kyoko Kataoka
Kaede
Kirin Kiki
Omatsu
Toshiyuki Nagashima
Odabe
Hiroyuki Nagato
Sumie Sasaki
Osawa
Shōji Yasui
Touta Tarumi
groups Crew
Tamasaburo Bando
Director
Toshiaki Nakazawa
Producer
Shigehiro Nakagawa
Producer
Mutsuo Naganuma
Director of Photography
Akira Suzuki
Editor
Yoshiyuki Okuhara
Editor
Takeo Kimura
Art Direction
Hideo Kumagai
Lighting Director
Kafu Nagai
Novel
Mantarō Kubota
Theatre Play
Genki Yoshimura
Screenplay
Taeko Sakurai
Screenplay
Masafumi Saito
Screenplay
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