Suzakumon (film) explained

Suzakumon
Director:	Kazuo Mori
Music:	Ichirō Saitō
Cinematography:	Kazuo Miyagawa
Studio:	Daiei Film
Runtime:	100 min.
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

, is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori^{[1] [2]} 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.^[3]

Cast

• Source:^[4]
• 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

See also

• Suzakumon

External links

• • http://www.raizofan.net/link4/movie2/kojyo.htm

Notes and References

1. Web site: 朱雀門. 角川書店. March 19, 2020.
2. Web site: 資料 監督作品一覧. kotobank. March 19, 2020.
3. Web site: 毎日映画コンクール 第12回（1957年. Mainichi Shimbun. 10 December 2021.
4. Web site: 朱雀門. Kinema Junpo. March 19, 2020.