Yearning (1993)
1h 38m
Running Time
May 29, 1993Release Date
Yearning (1993)
1h 38m
Running Time
May 29, 1993Release Date
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Plot.
Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this soft-focused romance about love and obligation, based on a novel by Kafu Nagai. Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced to give up her young daughter to the merchant's family. The film opens with her working in a high-class brothel abutting Tokyo Bay. Though she has passionate affection for a drug wholesaler, whom she loves as well, Kaede is swamped with not only debts to the bordello and family obligations -- she is expected to support her parents and her sister -- but also guilt over losing her child. This pain is only increased when Kaede learns that her daughter is being abused. She does the only thing she can: She buys back her child by signing on at the brothel for a longer stint.
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Cast & Crew.

Sayuri Yoshinaga
Onami

Kyoko Kataoka
Kaede

Kirin Kiki
Omatsu

Toshiyuki Nagashima
Odabe

Hiroyuki Nagato

Sumie Sasaki
Osawa

Shōji Yasui

Touta Tarumi

Tamasaburo Bando
Director

Shigehiro Nakagawa
Producer

Rokkō Toura
Actor

Akira Suzuki
Editor

Katsuhiko Watabiki
Actor

Mutsuo Naganuma
Director of Photography

Toshiaki Nakazawa
Producer

Yoshiyuki Okuhara
Editor

Takeo Kimura
Art Direction

Hideo Kumagai
Lighting Director

Mantarō Kubota
Theatre Play

Genki Yoshimura
Screenplay

Taeko Sakurai
Screenplay

Masafumi Saito
Screenplay

Kafu Nagai
Novel
Details.
Wiki.
Yearning (Japanese: Yume no onna) is a 1993 Japanese drama film directed by Bandō Tamasaburō V. It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.