The Romance of Yushima (婦系図 湯島の白梅, Onna Keizu Yushima no Shiraume) (おんなけいず ゆしまのしらうめ), aka The White Plum of Yushima, is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.[2][3]
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Directed by | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
Written by | Kyōka Izumi (story) Teinosuke Kinugasa (writer) Jun Sagara (writer) |
Produced by | Asata Fujii |
Cinematography | Kimio Watanabe |
Music by | Ichirō Saitō |
Production company | Daiei Film |
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Running time | 116 min. |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
A highly esteemed student falls for Otsuta, a geisha.
A TV remake of the film was broadcast, by Fuji TV as part of Shionogi's sponsored TV theater program, between Thursday 9 June and Thursday 16 June in 1966, starring Fujiko Yamamoto who revived her film leading role as Otsuta.
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