Synopsis
In Akira Kurosawa’s first film after the end of World War II, future beloved Ozu regular Setsuko Hara gives an astonishing performance as Yukie, the only female protagonist in Kurosawa’s body of work and one of his strongest heroes. Transforming herself from genteel bourgeois daughter to independent social activist, Yukie traverses a tumultuous decade in Japanese history.
Cast
| Yukie Yagihara | Setsuko Hara |
| Ruykichi Noge | Susumu Fujita |
| Professor Yagihara | Denjiro Okochi |
| Madame Noge | Haruko Sugimura |
| Madame Yagihara | Eiko Miyoshi |
| Itokawa | Aritake Kono |
Credits
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Screenplay | Eijirô Hisaita |
| Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
| Music | Tadashi Hattori |
From the Current
Eclipse Series 7:
Postwar Kurosawa
by
Jan 14, 2008
As Japan was coming out of World War II, Akira Kurosawa was coming into his own as a filmmaker. And this was hardly a coincidence: though he had made a name for himself as a promising popular craftsman at Toho Studios during the war, Kurosawa later said he didn’t feel he could express himself . . .
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