Akitsu Hot Springs

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.

Romance Drama

Mariko Okada

(Shinko)

Hiroyuki Nagato

Sō Yamamura

Jūkichi Uno

Eijirō Tōno

Fukuko Sayo

Sumiko Hidaka

Teruo Yoshida

Mari Yoshimura

Mutsuko Sakura

(Geisha C)

Toyo Takahashi

(Geisha A)

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Taiji Tonoyama

Masako Nakamura

Shigeru Kōyama

Asao Koike

Akira Nagoya

Tsutomu Shimomoto

Kō Nishimura

Kōjirō Kusanagi

(Soldier A)

Kei Taguchi

(Soldier C)

Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru

Takanobu Hozumi

Imari Tsuji

Kakuko Chino

(Geisha B)

Kyoko Aoi

Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Kaoru Natsukawa

Momoko Okano

(Geisha D)

Mika Fujino

(Geisha E)

Tamotsu Tamura

Seigo Fukuoka

Fumio Tooyama

Akio Miyajima

Yûji Takasugi

(Soldier B)

Masatoshi Yoshida

(Boy)

Misae Tobe

Kayoko Terada