Beauty and the Thief

Beauty and the Thief

80 mins | Drama, Adventure, History | Sept. 22, 1952

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.

Beauty and the Thief

80 mins | Drama, Adventure, History | Sept. 22, 1952

Beauty and the Thief
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.
Producers
Original title 美女と盗賊
Directors Keigo Kimura
Writers Keigo Kimura, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Cast

Machiko Kyō

as Sakin

Masayuki Mori

as Kuroki no Taro

Rentaro Mikuni

as Kuroki no Jiro

Takashi Shimura

as Yoshimichi

Minoru Chiaki

as Takeichi no Takamaru

Yūnosuke Itō

as Dohachi

Tanie Kitabayashi

as Mrs. Inokuma

Yūko Mochizuki

as Kotora

Ichirō Sugai

as Mr. Inokuma

Eijirō Tōno

as Jurota