| Immortal Love | |||||||||
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| Director: | Keisuke Kinoshita | ||||||||
| Music: | Chūji Kinoshita | ||||||||
| Cinematography: | Hiroshi Kusuda | ||||||||
| Editing: | Yoshi Sugihara | ||||||||
| Studio: | Shochiku | ||||||||
| Distributor: | Shochiku | ||||||||
| Released: | [1] | ||||||||
| Runtime: | 107 minutes[2] | ||||||||
| Country: | Japan | ||||||||
| Language: | Japanese | ||||||||
Immortal Love Bitter Spirit (Japanese: 永遠の人|Eien no hito|The eternal person) is a 1961 Japanese drama film written and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.[3] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[4] Masakazu Tamura made his official debut in the film.[5]
Over a time span of 30 years, the film tells the story of Sadako, who is pressured into a marriage with Heibei, the crippled war veteran son of the local landlord, although she loves Takashi, a young man from the same village. Takashi later marries Tomoko, but neither he nor Sadako can forget their past mutual affection.