The Heart

Name: The Heart
Genre: Drama
Released: 1955
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 7

1955 · 120 min

Drama

★ 7.0

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In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.

Crew

Director Kon Ichikawa
Screenplay Katsuhito Inomata
Screenplay Keiji Hasebe
Director of Photography Takeo Itō

Cast

Masayuki Mori
Nobuchi
Michiyo Aratama
Shizu, Nobuchi's wife
Tatsuya Mihashi
Kaji
Shōji Yasui
Hioki Jiro
Tanie Kitabayashi
Hioki's mother
Akiko Tamura
Shizu's mother
M
Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
Hioki's father
Tsutomu Shimomoto
Hioki's elder brother
Masami Shimojō
Employment agent
Tomoko Naraoka
Kume, the maid
A
Akira Hisamatsu
Travelling monk
Zenji Yamada
Nobuchi's uncle

Crew

Director — Kon Ichikawa
Screenplay — Katsuhito Inomata
Screenplay — Keiji Hasebe
Director of Photography — Takeo Itō

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Intermission

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