

14/10/1961
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures. Young Genji, the emperor’s illegitimate son cuts a swath through the women of the imperial court, while still mourning the spirit of his late mother who died while he was still a child. Driven to an obsession with the emperor’s new concubine, Lady Fujitsubo, whose resemblance to his late mother originally caught the eye of the emperor, young Genji embarks upon a reckless affair with her that could cost him his life.

Raizō Ichikawa
as Hikaru Genji

Hanayo Sumi
as Fujitsubo / Kiritsubo

Tamao Nakamura
as Oborozukiyo

Ayako Wakao
as Aoi no ue

Yoshie Mizutani
as Suetsumuhana

Michiko Takano
as Murasaki

Akiko Hasegawa
as Princess Akikonomu

Mitsuko Mito
as Lady Kokiden

Yasuko Nakada
as Lady Rokujo

Keizō Kawasaki
as To no Chujo

Jun'ichirō Narita
as Emperor Suzaku

Hajime Mitamura
as Prince Hyobu

Shirō Ōtsuji
as Koremitsu

Koreya Senda
as Minister of the Right

Michiko Ai
as

Reiko Fujiwara
as Ben

Mayumi Kurata
as

Tokiko Mita
as

Yōko Wakasugi
as

Kiyoko Hirai
as

Kuniko Miyake
as

Jukai Ichikawa
as Emperor

Hiroko Fujikawa
as

Kimiko Tachibana
as

Ikuko Mōri
as

Rumiko Komachi
as

Hiroko Yamamoto
as

Sumao Ishihara
as

Osamu Maruyama
as

Tatsuo Hanabu
as

Jiro Tsuruga
as

Bonta Maru
as

Hajime Koshikawa
as

Akira Konami
as

Gen Kimura
as

Sōji Shibata
as

Yoshiki Matsuoka
as

Kazuko Taniguchi
as

Kyōko Higashiyama
as
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