01 Sep 1995
The Pillow Book
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
The Lights of Asakusa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.
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上原謙 Shichirō Yamagami
高峰三枝子 Reiko Kosugi
夏川大二郎 Chōjirō Kanda
西村青児 Sasaki
坪内美子 Oryū
Kaneko Fujiwara Yoshino
徳大寺伸 Jun Asukai
杉村春子 Marieda Matsushima
河村黎吉 Gunji Ōhira
岡村文子 Kureko
武田春郎 Kōhei Handa
斎藤達雄 Kampei Fujii
笠智衆 Shin'ichi Katori
磯野秋雄 Senkichi
Shotaro Akagi Fukumatsu
日守新一 Futokō
近衛敏明 Nimura
岡田桑三 Arakawa
Kōichi Itō Sakuragi
小林十九二 Perfumer
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