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The Heart

68 %|Aug 31, 1955|Drama

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.

Featured Crew

Kon Ichikawa
Director
Yasushi Akutagawa
Original Music Composer
Natsume Sōseki
Novel
Masayuki Takagi
Producer
Masanori Tsujii
Editor
Masao Oki
Original Music Composer
Toshio Masuda
Assistant Director
Fumio Hashimoto
Sound

Cast

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Michiyo Aratama
Shizu, Nobuchi's wife
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Shōji Yasui
Hioki Jiro
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Tanie Kitabayashi
Hioki's mother
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Akiko Tamura
Shizu's mother
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Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
Hioki's father
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Tsutomu Shimomoto
Hioki's elder brother
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Masami Shimojō
Employment agent
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Tomoko Naraoka
Kume, the maid
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Akira Hisamatsu
Travelling monk
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Zenji Yamada
Nobuchi's uncle
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Keiji Itami
Kaji's father
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Nobuo Kawakami
Undertaker
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Kaoru Yamamoto
Lady of the lodgings