Ejima and Ikushima
30/10/1955
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contact with any other man except in the presence of the Shogun. The institution played a key role in the Byzantine world of Japanese court politics during the Edo era. In 1714, Lady Ejima was sent to pay her respects at a Buddhist temple in the city, and chose to pay an unauthorised visit to the kabuki theatre – a violation of protocol that was to have tragic consequences.
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Chikage Awashima
as 絵島
Ichikawa Danjūrō XI
as 生島新五郎
Mitsuko Kusabue
as 宇津
Mieko Takamine
as 月光院
Kuniko Miyake
as 天英院
Ichikawa Sadanji III
as 家宣
小林きよし
as 家継
阪東彦三郎
as 紀州公吉宗
Teiji Takahashi
as 間部越前守
Tatsuya Ishiguro
as 新井白石
Eijirō Yanagi
as 土屋相模守
Joji Kaieda
as 秋本但馬守
Kōmei Minami
as 安藤志摩守
Akitake Kōno
as 奥山好竹院
Isao Yamagata
as 山田宗円
Yatsuko Tan'ami
as 宮路
Kyōko Kusajima
as 梅山
Yōko Kozono
as 友音
高木悠子
as 小のぶ
Sadako Sawamura
as 玉椿
Shōroku Onoe II
as 市川団十郎
Shigeru Onoe
as 山中平九郎
尾上菊蔵
as 滝井半四郎
市川滝之亟
as 藤村半太夫
Ryōsuke Kagawa
as 山村長太夫
Hiroshi Aoyama
as 清七
尾上多賀之亟
as 津賀屋善六
Mitsuo Nagata
as 後藤縫之助
Kōji Mitsui
as 岡本五郎右衛門
Yoshito Yamaji
as 谷口新平
Shinobu Araki
as 老中
Fujio Suga
as 仙石
Daisuke Katō
as 井口
Tomiemon Otomo
as 吉宗の家臣
Jinichi Amano
as 津雲
Rintarō Fujima
as 阿部豊後守
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