What Price Love?

What Price Love?

91 mins | Drama | Sept. 9, 1960

Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)

What Price Love?

91 mins | Drama | Sept. 9, 1960

What Price Love?
Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)
Producers Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Original title 白子屋駒子
Directors Kenji Misumi
Writers Teinosuke Kinugasa, Seiichi Funabashi

Cast

Fujiko Yamamoto

as Komako Shirokoya

Katsuhiko Kobayashi

as Chuhachi

Mieko Kondō

as Ogin

Minoru Chiaki

as Matashiro

Ryûzô Shimada

as Tango Abe

Ganjirô Nakamura II

as Shozaburo Shirokoya

Chikako Hosokawa

as Otsune Shirokoya

Fujio Murakami

as Seizaburo

Ichirō Izawa

as Seibei

Ryōsuke Kagawa

as Chobei Kagaya