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Immortal Love
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Wikipedia article
'Immortal Love' 'Bitter Spirit' is a 1961 Japanese drama film written and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Masakazu Tamura made his official debut in the film.
Plot
Over a time span of 30 years, the film tells the story of Sadako, who is pressured into a marriage with Heibei, the crippled war veteran son of the local landlord, although she loves Takashi, a young man from the same village. Takashi later marries Tomoko, but neither he nor Sadako can forget their past mutual affection.
Cast
*Hideko Takamine as Sadako
*Keiji Sada as Takashi
*Tatsuya Nakadai as Heibei
*Nobuko Otowa as Tomoko, Takashi's wife
*Akira Ishihama as Yutaka, Takashi's son
*Yukiko Fuji as Naoko, Sadako's daughter
*Kiyoshi Nonomura as Rikizo, Takashi's brother
*Yoshi Kat as Sojiro, Sadako's father
*Yasushi Nagata as Heizaemon, Heibei's father
*Torahiko Hamada as Mr. Koshinuma
*Masakazu Tamura as Eiichi, Sadako's son
*Masaya Totsuka as Morito, Sadako's son
*Eijir Tno as Policeman
References
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