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Appassionata( 1984)

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This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Yûko Natori

      Tsuya Shimamura

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      Morio Kazama

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      Kunihiko Mitamura

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      Aki Mizusawa

      Shima Shimamura

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      Mariko Okada

      Sei Shimamura

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      Mieko Takamine

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      Yoshiko Mita

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      Ayako Kobayashi

      Sei as a girl

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      Shirō Ōsaka

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      Kōjirō Kusanagi

      Sei's uncle

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      Kin Sugai

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      Junkichi Orimoto

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      Tomiko Ishii

      Midwife

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      Shingo Misawa

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      Eizō Kitamura

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      Takashi Ebata

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      Takashi Noguchi

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      Ryoichi Kusanagi

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      Ken'ichi Nagira

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      Yoshiro Ichikawa

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      Tokuko Miura

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      Naoji Iwata

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      Mineko Maruhira

      Neighborhood lady

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      Kojin Tokuda

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      Masaharu Arikawa

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      Kojirō Kawanami

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      Kōjiro Shirakawa

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      Yoshihiro Igarashi

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      Gorō Ōki

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      Michiko Tsujima

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      Tsuyako Okajima

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      Mitsue Wakabayashi

      Sei's grandmother

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      Kayoko Tominaga

      Kura Shimamura

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      Mieko Hoshino

      Neighborhood lady

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      Aki Sawa

      Neighborhood lady

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      Mayumi Tokunaga

      Neighborhood lady

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      Tankurô

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      Junichi Hosokawa

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      Mayumi Eda

      Waitress

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      Katsuko Ōkawa

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      Keiko Nanase

      Girl

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      Yuka Monma

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      Hiroshi Tanaka

      Postman

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      Momiji Yamamura

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      Yoshiki Yamada

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      Shintarō Mibu

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      Shunji Kotani

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      Rantaro Mine

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      Michihiro Kinoshita

      Rickshaw man

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      Yasushi Amaeda

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      Makoto Asai

      Rickshaw man

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      Hiroyuki Sugaya

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      Sozaburo Yoshimi

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      Kozo Kotani

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      Etsuko Ichihara

      Narrator (voice)

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      Mikio Narita

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      Kei Satō

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    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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