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An Heir's Place (1953)
Directed by Daisuke Itô
Overview
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasegawa Kuzuo who went on to become familiar among Ichikawa Kon fans as Yukinojo in An Actor’s Revenge, which was also co-written by Ito, adding to the relatedness of An Heir’s Place.
Length 125 minutes
Actors
Kazuo Hasegawa | Kinuyo Tanaka | Yûji Hori | Keiko Kishi | Ichijirô Oya | Kan Ishii | Chieko Higashiyama | Kumeko Urabe | Noriko Uchida | Shinobu Araki | Eigoro Onoe | Toshiaki Konoe | Hiroshi Ueda | Saburo Date | Fumihiko Yokoyama | Jun Fujikawa | Teruko Omi | Kimiko Tachibana | Tokiko Mita