The Wandering Princess
Kinuyo Tanaka’s first film in both color and CinemaScope is an epic about a woman caught in the torrents of history. Based on the memoirs of Hiro Saga, The Wandering Princess tells the story of Ryuko (Machiko Kyo), an aristocrat who, at the outset of World War II, enters an arranged marriage with Futetsu (Eiji Funakoshi), the younger brother of a soon-to-be-deposed monarch. With the story of Ryuko’s enmeshment in the Japanese colonization of Manchuria, Tanaka realizes with startling depth her ambition to relate a historical saga from a critical female perspective.
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Cast
- Machiko Kyo
- Ryuko Korinkakura
- Eiji Funakoshi
- Futetsu
- Yomei Ryu
- Fubun
- Atsuko Kindaichi
- Empress Wan Rong
- Sadako Sawamura
- Kazuko Sugawara
- Shozo Nanbu
- Hidesato Sugawara
- Chieko Higashiyama
- Nao Sugawara
- Kansho Yoshii
- Kosuke Takahashi
- Kiyoko Hirai
- Tsuruko Takahashi
- Tatsuya Ishiguro
- Furuya
- Ken Mitsuda
- Asabuki
- Mitsuko Mito
- Izumi
- Chishu Ryu
- Kinoshita
Credits
- Director
- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Screenplay
- Natto Wada
- Director of photography
- Kimio Watanabe
- Based on a book by
- Hiro Saga
- Composer
- Chuji Kinoshita
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