Beauty and the Thief

Overview

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 22, 1952

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Daiei Film

Cast

Masayuki Mori,Ichirō Sugai,Tanie Kitabayashi,Yūnosuke Itō,Takashi Shimura,Machiko Kyō,Eijirō Tōno,Yūko Mochizuki,Bokuzen Hidari,Rentaro Mikuniand 1 more

Director

Keigo Kimura

Writer

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa,Keigo Kimura

Cinematography

Yasuichiro Yamazaki

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0306550