Firefly Light

Overview

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

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 18, 1958

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Shochiku

Cast

Ayako Wakao,Kōji Mitsui,Sadako Sawamura,Chikage Awashima,Eiko Miyoshi,Fujio Suga,Eijirō Tōno,Miki Mori,Masao Mishima,Junzaburō Ban

Director

Heinosuke Gosho

Writer

Sakunosuke Oda,Toshio Yasumi

Producer

Yoshishige Uchiyama

Cinematography

Yoshio Miyajima

Music

Yasushi Akutagawa

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0051743