
Strangers When We Meet(1960)
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.



Fujiko Yamamoto
Kiwa Funaki

Ken Uehara
Yukio Takemura

Keizō Kawasaki
Goro Okamoto
Michiko Ai
Setsuko

Kazuko Ichikawa
Atsuko Takemura

Michiko Ono
Miyo Funaki
Shunji Natsume
Kiyoyoshi Funaki
Yoichi Funaki
Hayasaka

Hikaru Hoshi
Sakuraya
Kaketsu Yamacha
Undercurrent is a drama, romance film released in 1956 exploring themes of infidelity, melodrama. Directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura, it stars Fujiko Yamamoto, Ken Uehara, Keizō Kawasaki. In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
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