Overview
Crippled Kabuki player Tonbo is taken in by a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold art, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal.
Fun facts
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Music
Music by Tōru Takemitsu
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Tatsuo Suzuki
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Hiroko MinagawaNovel, Screenplay
- Midori KatakuraScreenplay
- Frankie SakaiScreenplay
- Masahiro ShinodaScreenplay
- Original title
- 写楽
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 2, 1995
- Original language
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
Production
Cast
Hiroyuki SanadaTonbo
Shima IwashitaOkan
Frankie SakaiTsutaya
Tsurutaro KataokaIkugorō
Shiro SanoUtamaro
Riona HazukiHanasato
Toshiya NagasawaTetsuzō
Haruko KatōOfuji- Taiko ShinbashiOsato
Masumi MiyazakiGohi
Chōichirō KawarasakiSantō Kyōden
Takashi TsumuraManager Yohei
Naomasa MusakaTsuruya Namboku IV
Naoto TakenakaŌta Nanpo
Bandō Mitsugorō XMatsudaira Sadanobu- Tomijuro Nakamura VIchikawa Danjūrō V
- Ichikawa Danzō IXIchikawa Omezō I
- Nakamura Shibajaku VIIIwai Hanshirō IV
Eisuke SasaiTomisaburo Segawa
Hiroshi ArikawaTsuruya Kiemon
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