• Source: The Tale of Genji (1951 film)

The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji Monogatari) is a 1951 Japanese drama film directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura. It is based on the early 11th century novel of the same name.




Cast


Kazuo Hasegawa as Hikaru Genji
Michiyo Kogure as Fujitsubo
Machiko Kyō as Awaji no ue
Nobuko Otowa as Murasaki no ue
Mitsuko Mito as Aoi no ue
Yuji Hori as Yoshinari
Denjirō Ōkōchi as Takuma nyudo
Chieko Soma as Kiritsubo
Yumiko Hasegawa as Oborozukiyo no kimi
Chieko Higashiyama as Kobiden
Osamu Takizawa as Kiritsubo gomon
Kentaro Honma as Kashira
Yuriko Hanabusa as Kiritsubo's mother
Hisako Takihana as Nun
Taiji Tonoyama as Priest




Release


The Tale of Genji was released in Japan on 2 November 1951 and shown in competition at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.




Legacy


The Tale of Genji was screened at a 2012 retrospective on Kaneto Shindō and Kōzaburō Yoshimura in London, organised by the British Film Institute and the Japan Foundation.




References






External links


The Tale of Genji at IMDb

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• Nobuko Otowa
• Masaichi Nagata
• Yuriko Hanabusa
• Ichikawa Raizō VIII
• Kaneto Shindo
• The Tale of Genji (1951 film)
• The Tale of Genji (disambiguation)
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• 1951 in film
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• Osamu Takizawa
• Tai Kato
• Kazuo Hasegawa
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