Suzakumon (film)

Suzakumon (朱雀門), is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori and based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi. At the 1957 Asia-Pacific Film Festival the film won awards for best film and best cinematography (Kazuo Miyagawa). The film also won a special award at the 1958 Mainichi Film Concours.

Cast

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 * Ayako Wakao as Princess Kazu, a.k.a. Kazunomiya
 * Raizo Ichikawa as Prince Arisugawa Taruhito
 * Fujiko Yamamoto as Yuhide, Princess Kazu's waiting woman
 * Shunji Natsume as Emperor Kōmei
 * Kuniko Miyake as Tsuneko, Kazunomiya's mother
 * Eijirō Tōno as Tomofusa Kunokura, Yuhide's father
 * Eitaro Ozawa as Iwakura Tomomi (as Sakae Ozawa)
 * Yoichi Funaki as Tokugawa Iemochi
 * Toshio Hosokawa as Tokugawa Yoshinobu
 * Masao Mishima as Sakai Tadaaki, the Kyoto Shoshidai
 * Kikue Mōri as Honjuin, 13th Shogun's mother
 * Kimiko Tachibana as Oriko
 * Hisao Toake as Kujō Hisatada, the Kampaku
 * Eijirō Yanagi as Ryuan, Yuhide's real father
 * Hisako Takihana as Tenshō-in
 * Seishirō Hara as Ōmura Masujirō
 * Ryosuke Kagawa as Hashimoto Sanehisa, Kazunomiya's grandfather