Yearning

Synopsis

Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this soft-focused romance about love and obligation, based on a novel by Kafu Nagai. Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced to give up her young daughter to the merchant's family. The film opens with her working in a high-class brothel abutting Tokyo Bay. Though she has passionate affection for a drug wholesaler, whom she loves as well, Kaede is swamped with not only debts to the bordello and family obligations -- she is expected to support her parents and her sister -- but also guilt over losing her child. This pain is only increased when Kaede learns that her daughter is being abused. She does the only thing she can: She buys back her child by signing on at the brothel for a longer stint.

Main Cast

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Onami

Age : 79 | Popularity : 6%

Kyoko Kataoka

Kaede

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Kirin Kiki

Omatsu

Age : 75 | Popularity : 6%

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Odabe

Age : 67 | Popularity : 4%

Hiroyuki Nagato

Age : 77 | Popularity : 3%

Sumie Sasaki

Osawa

Age : 90 | Popularity : 3%

Shōji Yasui

Age : 85 | Popularity : 3%

Touta Tarumi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Editing	Editor	Yoshiyuki Okuhara Akira Suzuki
Production	Producer	Toshiaki Nakazawa Shigehiro Nakagawa
Camera	Director of Photography	Mutsuo Naganuma
Art	Art Direction	Takeo Kimura
Directing	Director	Tamasaburo Bando
Writing	Novel	Kafu Nagai
	Theatre Play	Mantarô Kubota
	Screenplay	Taeko Sakurai Genki Yoshimura Masafumi Saito
Lighting	Lighting Director	Hideo Kumagai
Department	Role	Name

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