Yearning

Yearning (1993)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1993-05-29
  • Runtime: 1h 38min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Shochiku
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Tamasaburo Bando

Summary

Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this soft-focused romance about love and obligation, based on a novel by Kafu Nagai. Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced to give up her young daughter to the merchant's family. The film opens with her working in a high-class brothel abutting Tokyo Bay. Though she has passionate affection for a drug wholesaler, whom she loves as well, Kaede is swamped with not only debts to the bordello and family obligations -- she is expected to support her parents and her sister -- but also guilt over losing her child. This pain is only increased when Kaede learns that her daughter is being abused. She does the only thing she can: She buys back her child by signing on at the brothel for a longer stint.

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  • Sayuri Yoshinaga

    as Onami
  • Kyoko Kataoka

    as Kaede
  • Kirin Kiki

    as Omatsu
  • Toshiyuki Nagashima

    as Odabe
  • Hiroyuki Nagato

    as
  • Sumie Sasaki

    as Osawa
  • Shōji Yasui

    as
  • Touta Tarumi

    as
Directing Tamasaburo Bando Director
Production Shigehiro Nakagawa Producer
Editing Akira Suzuki Editor
Camera Mutsuo Naganuma Director of Photography
Production Toshiaki Nakazawa Producer
Editing Yoshiyuki Okuhara Editor
Art Takeo Kimura Art Direction
Lighting Hideo Kumagai Lighting Director
Writing Mantarō Kubota Theatre Play
Writing Genki Yoshimura Screenplay
Writing Taeko Sakurai Screenplay
Writing Masafumi Saito Screenplay
Writing Kafu Nagai Novel

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