Synopsis
A handsome, suave Toshiro Mifune lights up the screen as painter Ichiro, whose circumstantial meeting with a famous singer (Yoshiko Yamaguchi) is twisted by the tabloid press into a torrid affair. Ichiro files a lawsuit against the seedy gossip magazine, but his lawyer, Hiruta (Kurosawa stalwart Takashi Shimura), is playing both sides. A portrait of cultural moral decline, Scandal is also a compelling courtroom drama and a moving tale of human redemption.
Cast
| Ichiro Aoye | Toshiro Mifune |
| Miyako Saigo | Yoshiko Yamaguchi |
| Hiruta | Takashi Shimura |
| Masako | Yoko Katsuragi |
| Sumie, Aoye’s model | Noriko Sengoku |
| Hori | Sakae Ozawa |
| Asai | Shinichi Himori |
Credits
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Producer | Takashi Koide |
| Screenplay | Ryuzo Kikushima and Akira Kurosawa |
| Cinematography | Toshio Ubukata |
| Art direction | Tatsuo Hamada |
| Music | Fumio Hayasaka |
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 as...
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