An Actress

1956 Japanese film

An Actress
Directed by	Kaneto Shindō
Written by	Kaneto Shindō (screenplay) Kakuko Mori (book)
Produced by	Hisao Itoya Tengo Yamada Setsuo Noto
Starring	Nobuko Otowa Chikako Hosokawa Eitarō Ozawa
Cinematography	Yoshio Miyajima
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production company	Kindai Eiga Kyokai
Distributed by	Shintoho
Release date	27 November 1956 (1956年11月27日) (Japan)^[1]^[2]
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

An Actress (女優, Joyū) is a 1956 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō.^[1]^[2] It is based on the autobiography of actress Kakuko Mori.^[2]

Cast

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Nobuko Otowa as Kakuko Mori
Chikako Hosokawa as Tsukiko, Kakuko's mother
Shinsuke Ashida as Shinichirō Yagi
Sen Hara as Chiyo, Akio's mother
Sumiko Hidaka as Yugiku Yoshiya
Tanie Kitabayashi
Kei Taguchi as Tabata
Taketoshi Naitō as Akio Satomi
Eitarō Ozawa as Tarō Fujie (credited as Sakae Ozawa)
Zenpei Saga as Sugisaburō
Koreya Senda as Yasuda
Ichirō Shimizu as Kunijirō Matsukawa
Taiji Tonoyama
Eijirō Tōno as Tadao Inoue
Jūkichi Uno as Toshirō Yamashita

References

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^ ^a ^b "女優". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 August 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c "女優". Kinema Junpo (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 August 2023.