Firefly Light (1958)
2h 3m
Running Time
March 18, 1958Release Date
Firefly Light (1958)
2h 3m
Running Time
March 18, 1958Release Date
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Plot.
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small inn in the Kyoto suburb of Fushimi. She does not have an easy life. Her husband, Isuke (Ban Junzaburo), is a wastrel who fancies himself a kabuki singer and who is obsessed with cleanliness. Her mother-in-law, Sada (Miyoshi Eiko) dislikes her because of her humble origins (her family are farmers) and because she fears that she will inherit the inn instead of Sugi, her daughter. Sada's hopes for Sugi, however, are dashed when she runs off with a con artist and leaves her child behind for Tose to take care of. When Sada becomes seriously ill, it is Tose who nurses her. On her deathbed, Sada asks her daughter-in-law's forgiveness. Meanwhile Isuke spends most of his time with a mistress he has taken, forcing Tose to manage the inn by herself
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Cast & Crew.

Chikage Awashima
Tose

Junzaburō Ban
Isuke

Ayako Wakao
Oryo

Miki Mori
Sakamoto Ryoma

Masao Mishima

Kōji Mitsui

Machiko Mizuhara
Actress

Kimiko Fukuda
Actress

Eiko Miyoshi

Sadako Sawamura

Fujio Suga

Jotaro Togami
Actor

Eijirō Tōno

Yoshishige Uchiyama
Producer

Sakunosuke Oda
Novel

Heinosuke Gosho
Director

Toshio Yasumi
Writer

Jiro Kaga
Producer

Yoshio Miyajima
Director of Photography

Yasushi Akutagawa
Original Music Composer

Hidetetsu Hirakawa
Art Direction

Tōtetsu Hirakawa
Editor
Media.
