Akitsu Springs
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Director Yoshishige Yoshida Music director Hikaru Hayashi Story by Shinya Fujiwara Country Japan | 8/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Romance Screenplay Yoshishige Yoshida Duration Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 15, 1962 (1962-06-15) (Japan) Writer Shinya Fujiwara (novel), Yoshishige Yoshida Cast Mariko Okada (Shinko), Hiroyuki Nagato , Sô Yamamura , Jukichi Uno , Eijirô Tôno , Fukuko Sayo Similar movies Related Yoshishige Yoshida movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Akitsu Springs (秋津温泉, Akitsu Onsen) is a 1962 Japanese film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, starring Mariko Okada and Hiroyuki Nagato.
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The film is set at the Akitsu health spa. Just after World War II, Shusaku Kawamoto (Hiroyuki Nagato) who is suffering from tuberculosis, has come to Akitsu to die. One young girl, Shinko (Mariko Okada), refuses to let him and invigorates him on the slow path to recovery. They fall in love, and in one of his darker moments, Shusaku asks Shinko to join him in double suicide. She accepts his love but not ready to die. Neither, it transpires, is Shusaku, and slowly they part. Time passes, Shinko finds out that Shusaku is married with a child, and he seems to have no interest in her any more.
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