虞美人草 · 1935

Poppy

Kenji Mizoguchi · 72 min · Japan

Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.

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Production companies

Daiichi Eiga

Cast

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  Yukichi Iwata

  Tomotaka Inoue

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  Kasuke Koizumi

  Land owner

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  Kuniko Miyake

  Fujio Kono

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  Daijiro Natsukawa

  Hajime Munechika

• Tōichirō Negishi

  Asai

• Ayako Nijo

  Itoko

• Kazuyoshi Takeda

  Kingo Kono

• Mitsugu Terashima

  Munechika's father