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Director
  
Kaneto Shindo

Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

7.4/10
IMDb

Produced by
  
Kozaburo Yoshimura

Country
  
Japan

Epitome (film) movie poster

Cast
  
Release date
  
8 April 1953 (1953-04-08)

Writer
  
Kaneto Shindo, Shusei Tokuda (novel)

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Epitome (縮図, Shukuzu) is a 1953 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo.

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Plot

Ginko (Nobuko Otowa) works as a geisha to support her poor family, even though she has trained as a shoemaker to work with her father (Jūkichi Uno). She works first in Tokyo, then in northern Japan, and then in Tokyo again. She catches pneumonia and is carried home to die, but in the end her younger sister Tokiko dies and she lives.

Cast

  • Nobuko Otowa as Ginko
  • Isuzu Yamada as Tamiko
  • Sumiko Hidaka as Somefuku
  • Sō Yamamura as Wakabayashi
  • Akira Yamauchi as Kuramochi
  • Tanie Kitabayashi as Oshima
  • Jūkichi Uno as Ginzō
  • Taiji Tonoyama as Yamada
  • Ichirō Sugai as Isogai
  • Sadako Sawamura as Isogai's wife
  • Osamu Takizawa as Ino
  • Chikako Hosokawa as Fujikawa's owner
  • Masao Shimizu as Nagase
  • Yuriko Hanabusa as Kuramochi's mother
  • Yōichi Numata as Kurisu
  • References

    Epitome (film) Wikipedia
    Epitome (film) IMDb Epitome (film) themoviedb.org


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