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Poppy

61 %|Oct 31, 1935|Drama, Romance

Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. But she falls in love with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono is himself bound by an engagement to Sayoko, the daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue. The self-centered Fujio is ready to forsake everything for Ono, but he is prevailed upon to go ahead with his marriage to Sayoko. Fujio then offers the watch to Munechika who, perceiving Fujio’s true feelings, hurls the watch into the sea.

Featured Crew

Kenji Mizoguchi
Director
Ishitaro Takagi
Hairstylist
Yosinosuke Takeuchi
Sound Effects Editor
Daizaburo Nakamura
Costume Design
Ishitaro Takagi
Assistant Director
Terakado Seikichi
Assistant Director
Haruto Sato
Assistant Director
Tatsuro Horikoshi
Lighting Technician

Cast

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Yukichi Iwata
Tomotaka Inoue
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Kasuke Koizumi
Land owner
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Kuniko Miyake
Fujio Kono
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Daijirō Natsukawa
Hajime Munechika
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Mitsugu Terashima
Munechika's father
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Yōko Umemura
Fujio's mother
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Chiyoko Ôkura
Sayako Inoue