Appassionata (1984)
2h 25m
Running Time
January 14, 1984Release Date
Appassionata (1984)
2h 25m
Running Time
January 14, 1984Release Date
Plot.
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.
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Cast & Crew.
Yûko Natori
Tsuya Shimamura
Morio Kazama
Kunihiko Mitamura
Aki Mizusawa
Shima Shimamura
Mariko Okada
Sei Shimamura
Mieko Takamine
Yoshiko Mita
Ayako Kobayashi
Sei as a girl
Shirō Ōsaka
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Sei's uncle
Kin Sugai
Tomiko Ishii
Midwife
Mineko Maruhira
Neighborhood lady
Mitsue Wakabayashi
Sei's grandmother
Kayoko Tominaga
Kura Shimamura
Mieko Hoshino
Neighborhood lady
Aki Sawa
Neighborhood lady
Mayumi Tokunaga
Neighborhood lady
Mayumi Eda
Waitress
Keiko Nanase
Girl
Hiroshi Tanaka
Postman
Michihiro Kinoshita
Rickshaw man
Makoto Asai
Rickshaw man
Etsuko Ichihara
Narrator (voice)
Tomiko Miyao
Original Story
Sadao Nakajima
Director
Hiro Matsuda
Screenplay
Fujio Morita
Director of Photography
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Original Music Composer
Norimichi Igawa
Art Direction
Yoshikazu Sano
Art Direction
Yoshiaki Masuda
Lighting Technician
Isamu Ichida
Editor
Hideto Kuriyama
Sound Recordist
Teruhiko Arakawa
Sound Mixer
Akira Shimizu
Assistant Director
Eizô Kitamura
Sozaburo Yoshimi
Shingo Misawa
Yoshiki Yamada
Yoshihiro Igarashi
Hiroyuki Sugaya
Kōjiro Shirakawa
Kojirō Kawanami
Kei Satō
Kojin Tokuda
Naoji Iwata
Tokuko Miura
Gorō Ōki
Masaharu Arikawa
Junichi Hosokawa
Yoshiro Ichikawa
Ken'ichi Nagira
Ryoichi Kusanagi
Takashi Noguchi
Takashi Ebata
Junkichi Orimoto
Katsuko Ōkawa
Yuka Monma
Momiji Yamamura
Shintarō Mibu
Shunji Kotani
Rantaro Mine
Yasushi Amaeda
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 14, 1984
Original Name序の舞
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 25m
Genres
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