Beauty and the Thief

(1952)

★ 9 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Year: 1952

Runtime: 80 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 木村恵吾

Cast: Матико Кё, Масаюки Мори, 三国連太郎, Такаси Симура, Минору Тиаки, 左卜全, Юносукэ Ито, Таниэ Китабаяши, 望月優子, Итиро Сугай

Plot

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.