#Kikuko Hanaoka

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Japanese actress Kikuko Hanaoka, about 1930

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Katsuko Wakasugi in Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1959)

Cast: Shigeru Amachi, Katsuko Wakasugi, Shuntaro Emi, Ryuzaburo Nakamura, Noriko Kitazawa, Junko Ikeuchi, Kikuko Hanaoka, Hiroshi Hayashi, Jun Otomo, Shinjuro Asano. Screenplay: Masayoshi Onuki, Yoshihiro Ishikawa, based on a play by Nanboku Tsuruya. Cinematography: Tadashi Nishimoto. Production design: Harayasu Kurosawa. Film editing: Shin Nagata. Music: Michiaki Watanabe.

Keisuke Kinoshita's 1949 version of the much-adapted ghost story, Yotsuya Kaidan, jettisoned the supernatural in favor of the psychological, turning the protagonist, Iemon, into a somewhat more sympathetic, even tragic figure. But ten years later, Nobuo Nakagawa went straight for the horror: a bloodthirsty, ambitious Iemon (Shigeru Amachi), who doesn't even need Naosuke's (Shuntaro Emi) Iago-like promptings to descend straight into murder. In fact, if you try to apply psychology to Nakagawa's Iemon, you'll run up against some blank walls: It's hard to understand why Iemon in this version even bothers to settle down to a life of umbrella-making after his slaughter of Oiwa's father and his complicity in Naosuke's dispatch of Yomoshichi (Ryuzaburo Nakamura), his rival for Osode's (Noriko Kitazawa) hand. By this time, Iemon is steeped in blood so far that "returning were as tedious as go o'er," to put it in Macbeth's terms. In this version, the ghosts of Oiwa (Katsuko Wakasugi) and Takuetsu (Jun Otomo) are particularly real and vengeful, not just phantoms of Iemon's imagination, as in Kinoshita's version. They lead Iemon into slaughtering Ume (Junko Ikeuchi) and her father and finally to his own doom. Nakagawa's film lacks the subtlety of Kinoshita's, but in the end I think that's for the good: What you want from a ghost story is catharsis, not irony.

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Director Nobua Nakagawa returns with KAIDAN KASANE-GA-FUCHI (1957), translated as GHOST STORY OF KASANE SWAMP! Based on a story from rakugoka Encho Sanyutei, this horror delivers exactly what you want, and more!

The film stars Tetsuro Tamba, Katsuko Wakasugi, Takashi Wada, Noriko Kitazawa and Kikuko Hanaoka.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 13:18; Discussion 25:56; Ranking 39:53

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Bad movie I have The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum 1939

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[Last Film I Saw] The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

[Last Film I Saw] The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

English Title: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums Original Title: Zangiku monogatari Year: 1939 Country: Japan Language: Japanese Genre: Drama Director: Kenji Mizoguchi Writers: Matsutarô Kawaguchi Yoshikata Yoda Shôfû Muramatsu Music: Shirô Fukai Senji Itô Cinematography: Yozô Fuji Minoru Miki Cast: Shôtarô Hanayagi Kakuko Mori Kôkichi Takada Gonjurô Kawarazaki Tokusaburo Arashi Kikuko Hanaoka…

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Actress Kikuko Hanaoka, late 1920s

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Japanese actress Kikuko Hanaoka, about 1930

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Japanese actress Kikuko Hanaoka, about 1930

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Actress Kikuko Hanaoka, about 1930.

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Japanese actress Hanaoka Kikuko, 1930

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Actress Kikuko Hanaoka, late 1920s

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ealy 1930s, Actress Hanaoka Kikuko (1910-1984)