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Top Cast
Kenji Sawada
Yumeji Takehisa
Yoshio Harada
Wakiya
Tomoko Mariya
Tomoyo Wakiya
Masumi Miyazaki
Hikono
Tamasaburō Bandō V
Onshu Inamura
K
Kazuhiko Hasegawa
Onimatsu
Léona Hirota
Oyo
Akaji Maro
Criminal
Kimiko Yo
Jiro
Chikako Miyagi
Nanny
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Themes & Keywords
taisho period
About Yumeji
Yumeji is a drama film released in 1991 exploring themes of taisho period. Directed by Seijun Suzuki, it stars Kenji Sawada, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Mariya. Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
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