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Details
- Original title
- 永遠の人
- Years
- 1961
- Release date
- 1961-09-16
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 106 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (20 votes)
Themes
- rape
- love triangle
- marriage
- unrequited love
- forced marriage
- class relations
- unhappy marriage
- returned alive
- land reform
- spanning generations
- landowner
- man with limp
- +5 more
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best International Feature Film · 1962 · nominated
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 1962 · nominated
Cast & crew
Hideko Takamine
as Sadako
Keiji Sada
as Takashi
Tatsuya Nakadai
as Heibei
Nobuko Otowa
as Tomoko
Akira Ishihama
as Yutaka
Masakazu Tamura
as Eiichi
Yukiko Fuji
as Naoko
- KN
Kiyoshi Nonomura
as Rikizo
Yoshi Katō
as Sojiro
- YN
Yasushi Nagata
as Heizaemon
Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita