Flame of My Love

Flame of My Love

84 mins | Drama, Romance | Feb. 13, 1949

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.

Flame of My Love

84 mins | Drama, Romance | Feb. 13, 1949

Flame of My Love
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Original title わが恋は燃えぬ
Directors Kenji Mizoguchi
Writers Yoshikata Yoda, Kōgo Noda, Kaneto Shindō

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka

as Eiko Hirayama

Mitsuko Mito

as Chiyo

Kuniko Miyake

as Toshiko Kishida

Ichirō Sugai

as Kentaro Omoi

Eitarō Ozawa

as Ryuzo Hayase

Shinobu Araki

as Eiko's Father

Eijirō Tōno

as State Councillor Itô

Koreya Senda

as Prime Minister Inagaki