Beauty and the Thief

The story

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.

Cast & crew

Machiko KyōSakin

Masayuki MoriKuroki no Taro

Rentaro MikuniKuroki no Jiro

Takashi ShimuraYoshimichi

Minoru ChiakiTakeichi no Takamaru

Bokuzen HidariCast

Yūnosuke ItōDohachi

Tanie KitabayashiMrs. Inokuma

Yūko MochizukiKotora

Ichirō SugaiMr. Inokuma

Eijirō TōnoJurota