Takekurabe (1955 film)
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Directed by | Heinosuke Gosho |
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Cinematography | Joji Ohara |
Music by | Yasushi Akutagawa |
Distributed by | Shintoho |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Takekurabe (たけくらべ, Takekurabe, lit. "Comparing heights"), English titles Growing Up, Adolescence, or Daughters of Yoshiwara, is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Heinosuke Gosho. It is based on Higuchi Ichiyō's 1895-1896 novella Takekurabe.[1][2]
Plot
[edit]Growing up in the Yoshiwara red light district of Meiji era Edo, teenage boy Shinnyo, son of a buddhist priest, helplessly witnesses not only his sister Ohana being sold as a concubine by his money-loving father, but also the fate of Midori, a neighbourhood girl to whom he has an unspoken affection, who is destined to become a courtesan like her older sister Omaki.
Cast
[edit]- Hibari Misora as Midori
- Keiko Kishi as Omaki
- Mitsuko Yoshikawa as Orin, Midori's mother
- Zeko Nakamura as Gosuke, Midori's father
- Eijirō Yanagi as owner of the Daikokuya
- Takashi Kitahara as Shinnyo
- Setsuko Shinobu as Shinnyo's mother
- Takamaru Sasaki as Shinnyo's father
- Kurayoshi Nakamura as Sangoro
- Yūko Mochizuki as Sangoro's mother
- Takeshi Sakamoto as Sangoro's father
- Akira Hattori as Chokichi
- Kyū Sazanka as Tatsugoro, Chokichi's father
- Matsumoto Hakuō II (credited Somegorō Ichikawa) as Shōtarō
- Kikue Mōri as Shōtarō's grandmother
- Atsuko Ichinomiya as messenger
- Iida Chōko as Baayaotoki
- Isuzu Yamada as Okichi
- Hatae Kishi
- Kyū Sakamoto (uncredited)
Production and reception
[edit]Takekurabe was independently produced by Tsūjin Fukushima's company New Art Productions (
Awards
[edit]- Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress Isuzu Yamada in Takekurabe and Ishigassen[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "たけくらべ (Takekurabe)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- ^ a b "たけくらべ (Takekurabe)" (in Japanese). Kinenote. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ a b Nolletti Jr., Arthur (2008). The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter through Tears. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 214–225, 303. ISBN 978-0-253-34484-7.
- ^ Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (1959). The Japanese Film – Art & Industry. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company.
- ^ "6th Blue Ribbon Awards" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
External links
[edit]- Takekurabe at IMDb