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Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)Read moreLess
Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)
The story
Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)
Cast & crew
Fujiko YamamotoKomako Shirokoya
Katsuhiko KobayashiChuhachi
Mieko KondōOgin
Minoru ChiakiMatashiro
Ryūzō ShimadaTango Abe
Ganjirō Nakamura IIShozaburo Shirokoya
Chikako HosokawaOtsune Shirokoya
Ichirō IzawaSeibei
Ryōsuke KagawaChobei Kagaya
Saburo DateCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Kenji Misumi
- Screenplay
- Seiichi Funahashi
- Screenplay
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Editor
- Kanji Suganuma
- Original Music Composer
- Ichirō Saitō
- Director of Photography
- Hiroshi Imai