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Duration
  

Country
  
Japan

Director
  
Kazuo Mori

Language
  
Japanese

Writer
  
Matsutaro Kawaguchi
,
Fuji Yahiro

Release date
  
March 20, 1957

Suzakumon (朱雀門, English title: The Love of a Princess), is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori and based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi. At the 1957 Asia-Pacific Film Festival the film won awards for best film and best cinematography (Kazuo Miyagawa). The film also won a special award at the 1958 Mainichi Film Concours.

Cast

  • Ayako Wakao as Princess Chikako, The Princess Kazu (和宮 親子内親王, Kazu-no-miya Chikako naishinnō)
  • Raizo Ichikawa as Prince Arisugawa Taruhito
  • Fujiko Yamamoto as Yuhide, Princess Kazu's waiting woman
  • Shunji Natsume as Emperor Kōmei
  • Kuniko Miyake as Kyoko, Kazunomiya's mother (Tsuneko Hashimoto)
  • Eijirō Tōno as Tomofusa Kunokura, Yuhide's father
  • Eitaro Ozawa as Iwakura (as Sakae Ozawa)
  • Yoichi Funaki as Ieshige Tokunaga
  • Toshio Hosokawa as Yoshitsune Tokugawa
  • Masao Mishima as Tadayoshi Sakai (Sakai Tadaaki)
  • Kikue Mōri as Honjuin, 13th Shogun's mother
  • Kimiko Tachibana as Oriko
  • Hisao Toake as Kujo
  • Eijirō Yanagi as Ryuan, Yuhide's real father

    • References

    Suzakumon (film) Wikipedia
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    Suzakumon (film) IMDb