Beauty and the Thief

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.

Cast & Crew

Director

Keigo Kimura

Machiko Kyō

Sakin

Masayuki Mori

Kuroki no Taro

Rentaro Mikuni

Kuroki no Jiro

Takashi Shimura

Yoshimichi

Minoru Chiaki

Takeichi no Takamaru

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