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With Beauty and Sorrow

With Beauty and Sorrow

19655.51h 46m

Overview

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.

Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
Written by Nobuo Yamada, Yasunari Kawabata
Produced by Takeshi Sasaki
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Top Cast

Kaoru Yachigusa

Kaoru Yachigusa

Otoko Ueno

Mariko Kaga

Mariko Kaga

Keiko Sakami

So Yamamura

So Yamamura

Toshio Ôki

Kei Yamamoto

Kei Yamamoto

Taichiro Ôki

Misako Watanabe

Misako Watanabe

Fumiko Ôki

Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

Otoko's Mother

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Yoshiko Nakamura

Old woman in Arashiyama

M

Miko Hirata

Y

Yoshihide Satō

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Themes & Keywords

based on novel or book

About With Beauty and Sorrow

With Beauty and Sorrow is a romance, drama film released in 1965 exploring themes of based on novel or book. Directed by Masahiro Shinoda, it stars Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Kaga, So Yamamura. When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.

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