Appassionata

Appassionata (1984)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1984-01-14
  • User Rating: 5/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 25min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Toei Company
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Sadao Nakajima
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Summary

This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.

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  • Yûko Natori

    as Tsuya Shimamura

  • Morio Kazama

    as

  • Kunihiko Mitamura

    as

  • Aki Mizusawa

    as Shima Shimamura

  • Mariko Okada

    as Sei Shimamura

  • Mieko Takamine

    as

  • Yoshiko Mita

    as

  • Ayako Kobayashi

    as Sei as a girl

  • Shirō Ōsaka

    as

  • Kōjirō Kusanagi

    as Sei's uncle

  • Kin Sugai

    as

  • Junkichi Orimoto

    as

  • Tomiko Ishii

    as Midwife

  • Shingo Misawa

    as

  • Eizô Kitamura

    as

  • Takashi Ebata

    as

  • Takashi Noguchi

    as

  • Ryoichi Kusanagi

    as

  • Ken'ichi Nagira

    as

  • Yoshiro Ichikawa

    as

  • Tokuko Miura

    as

  • Naoji Iwata

    as

  • Mineko Maruhira

    as Neighborhood lady

  • Kojin Tokuda

    as

  • Masaharu Arikawa

    as

  • Kojirō Kawanami

    as

  • Kōjiro Shirakawa

    as

  • Yoshihiro Igarashi

    as

  • Gorō Ōki

    as

  • Michiko Tsujima

    as

  • Tsuyako Okajima

    as

  • Mitsue Wakabayashi

    as Sei's grandmother

  • Kayoko Tominaga

    as Kura Shimamura

  • Mieko Hoshino

    as Neighborhood lady

  • Aki Sawa

    as Neighborhood lady

  • Mayumi Tokunaga

    as Neighborhood lady

  • Tankurô

    as

  • Junichi Hosokawa

    as

  • Mayumi Eda

    as Waitress

  • Katsuko Ōkawa

    as

  • Keiko Nanase

    as Girl

  • Yuka Monma

    as

  • Hiroshi Tanaka

    as Postman

  • Momiji Yamamura

    as

  • Yoshiki Yamada

    as

  • Shintarō Mibu

    as

  • Shunji Kotani

    as

  • Rantaro Mine

    as

  • Michihiro Kinoshita

    as Rickshaw man

  • Yasushi Amaeda

    as

  • Makoto Asai

    as Rickshaw man

  • Hiroyuki Sugaya

    as

  • Sozaburo Yoshimi

    as

  • Kozo Kotani

    as

  • Etsuko Ichihara

    as Narrator (voice)

  • Mikio Narita

    as

  • Kei Satō

    as
Directing Akira Shimizu Assistant Director
Writing Tomiko Miyao Original Story
Directing Sadao Nakajima Director
Writing Hiro Matsuda Screenplay
Camera Fujio Morita Director of Photography
Sound Toshirō Mayuzumi Original Music Composer
Art Norimichi Igawa Art Direction
Art Yoshikazu Sano Art Direction
Lighting Yoshiaki Masuda Lighting Technician
Editing Isamu Ichida Editor
Sound Hideto Kuriyama Sound Recordist
Sound Teruhiko Arakawa Sound Mixer

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