No community ratings yet on FilmStash · 0 membersOne score per member · Verified member ratings
Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him.Read moreLess
Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him.
The story
Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him.
Cast & crew
Sayuri YoshinagaMurasaki Shikibu
Yuki AmamiHikaru Genji
Toru KazamaCast
Morio KazamaCast
Kyôko KishidaCast
Naoto TakenakaCast
Seiko MatsudaCast
Takako TokiwaCast
Ken WatanabeCast
Reiko TakashimaCast
Rino KataseCast
Mitsuko MoriCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Tonkô Horikawa
- Director of Photography
- Tatsuo Suzuki
- Screenplay
- Akira Hayasaka
- Producer
- Keita Senoo
- Producer
- Riuko Tominaga
- Producer
- Junichi Kimura
- Producer
- Nobuyuki Tohya
- Producer
- Hiroshi Furukawa
- Producer
- 依田正和
- Original Music Composer
- Isao Tomita
- Editor
- Shin'ya Tadano