Phoenix

Following the unexpected death of her father, stage actress Emi Ikushima has to navigate the pitfalls of her rising fame and her increasingly complicated love life.

Drama Romance

Yumeji Tsukioka

(Emi Ikushima)

Tatsuya Nakadai

(Keiichi Naganuma)

Shin Date

(Yumi Tajima)

Sanae Nakahara

(Kazuko Makita)

Hisano Yamaoka

(Emi's older sister)

Kenjiro Uemura

(Koji Shioda)

Fumio Ōmachi

(Katsuyuki Sarumaru)

Toshiyuki Ichimura

(Shiro Kusakabe)

Masao Oda

(Tsutomu Asuka)

Hatsuko Wakahara

(Eiko Otori)

Emiko Azuma

(Yoshiko Yamagiwa)

Kenji Kawai

(Ryohei Toki)

Yo Shiomi

(Master)

Kikuko Hasegawa

(Master's daughter)

Keiko Shima

(Shima Miyuki)

Zenji Yamada

(Hisaichi-san)

Takashi Koshiba

(Sugai)

Keishichi Nakahara

(Production committee member)

Kyōko Akemi

(Satoko)

Tatsuya Mihashi

(Yasushi Sugiyama)

Mie Kitahara

(Actress Kitahara)

Nobuo Kaneko

(Fuji director)

Tōru Abe

(Producer Haruyama)

Shirō Ōsaka

(Toku-san)

Ranko Akagi

Uzumi Ashikawa

Hiroyuki Nagato

Masumi Okada

Ryōji Hayama

Frankie Sakai

Rentaro Mikuni

(Film actor (uncredited))