Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)
Fujiko Yamamoto
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Mieko Kondō
Minoru Chiaki
Ryūzō Shimada
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Chikako Hosokawa
Fujio Murakami
Ichirō Izawa
Ryōsuke Kagawa
San'emon Arashi
Saburo Date
Setsuko Hama
Kanae Kobayashi
Rumiko Komachi
Teruko Ōmi
Kimiko Tachibana