Suzakumon (film)

Suzakumon
Directed by	Kazuo Mori
Written by	Matsutarō Kawaguchi (novel) Fuji Yahiro (screenplay)
Produced by	executive producer Masaichi Nagata
Cinematography	Kazuo Miyagawa
Music by	Ichirō Saitō
Production company	Daiei Film
Release date	March 20, 1957 (1957-03-20)[1]
Running time	100 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Suzakumon (朱雀門, English title: The Love of a Princess), is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori^[2][3] and based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi. At the 1957 Asia-Pacific Film Festival the film won awards for best film and best cinematography (Kazuo Miyagawa). The film also won a special award at the 1958 Mainichi Film Concours.^[4]

Cast

• Source:^[5]
• Ayako Wakao as Princess Kazu, a.k.a. Kazunomiya
• Raizo Ichikawa as Prince Arisugawa Taruhito
• Fujiko Yamamoto as Yuhide, Princess Kazu's waiting woman
• Shunji Natsume as Emperor Kōmei
• Kuniko Miyake as Tsuneko, Kazunomiya's mother
• Eijirō Tōno as Tomofusa Kunokura, Yuhide's father
• Eitaro Ozawa as Iwakura Tomomi (as Sakae Ozawa)
• Yoichi Funaki as Tokugawa Iemochi
• Toshio Hosokawa as Tokugawa Yoshinobu
• Masao Mishima as Sakai Tadaaki, the Kyoto Shoshidai
• Kikue Mōri as Honjuin, 13th Shogun's mother
• Kimiko Tachibana as Oriko
• Hisao Toake as Kujō Hisatada, the Kampaku
• Eijirō Yanagi as Ryuan, Yuhide's real father
• Hisako Takihana as Tenshō-in
• Seishirō Hara as Ōmura Masujirō
• Ryosuke Kagawa as Hashimoto Sanehisa, Kazunomiya's grandfather

See also

• Suzakumon

References

1. (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1957/cg001150.htm accessed 8 January 2009
2. "朱雀門". 角川書店. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
3. "資料 監督作品一覧". kotobank. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
4. "毎日映画コンクール 第12回（1957年". Mainichi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
5. "朱雀門". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved March 19, 2020.

External links

• Suzakumon at IMDb
• (in Japanese) http://www.raizofan.net/link4/movie2/kojyo.htm