Movie

Chikamatsu Monogatari

近松物語

18 1954 1 h 42 min
78%
Audience score158 votes on TMDB

“The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.”

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.

Screenplay
Yoshikata Yoda
Status
Released
Release date
23/11/1954
Original language
Japanese

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