Sumida River

The story

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a period film, but thematically a modern one. All the themes that you associate with the normal Shochiku women's films set in the present day are in this film, just in a different context: love, the planning of a marriage, career, family relations and societal melancholy. There is no action or swordplay.

Cast

S Shusuke Agata K Kōji Mitsui F Fumiko Okamura T Tatsuo Saitō K Ken Uehara H Hiroko Kawasaki H Hideo Fujino M Mitsuko Yoshikawa T Takeshi Sakamoto S Seiji Nishimura T Tetsu Tsuboi S Setsuko Shinobu

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R Ryōtarō Mizushima K Kazuko Okada S Sugako Takimi