
Appassionata
January 14 1984 (about 41 years ago)Rating
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- Director: Sadao Nakajima
- Writer: Hiro Matsuda
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 2 h 25 m
- Country: Japan
- Company: Toei Company
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.
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Yûko Natori

Morio Kazama

Kunihiko Mitamura

Aki Mizusawa

Mariko Okada

Mieko Takamine

Yoshiko Mita

Ayako Kobayashi

Shirō Ōsaka

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Kin Sugai

Junkichi Orimoto

Tomiko Ishii

Shingo Misawa

Eizō Kitamura

Takashi Ebata

Takashi Noguchi

Ryoichi Kusanagi

Ken'ichi Nagira

Yoshiro Ichikawa
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