Movielogr
Bonchi (1960)
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Overview
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.
Length 105 minutes
Actors
Raizō Ichikawa | Ayako Wakao | Fubuki Koshiji | Mitsuko Kusabue | Tamao Nakamura | Isuzu Yamada | Narutoshi Hayashi | Ganjirô Nakamura | Kikue Môri | Mayumi Kurata | Tanie Kitabayashi | Machiko Kyō | Eiji Funakoshi | Ichirô Sugai | Mantarô Ushio | Ikuko Môri | Kimiko Tachibana | Jun Hamamura | San'emon Arashi | Saburo Date | Hiroshi Ueda | Yasuhiko Shima | Sentarô Godai | Kin'ya Ichikawa | Kanae Kobayashi | Keiko Koyanagi | Nobuko Tanei | Kazuko Taniguchi | Asako Takahara