The story of the last chrysanthemum [videorecording] = Zangiku monogatari / Shochiku Co. Ltd. ; produced by Shintaro Shirai ; screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Based on a novel by Shofu Muramatsu ; adaptation, Matsutaro Kawaguchi. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1939. A foreign film (Japan). Shotaro Hanayagi, Kakuko Mori, Kokichi Takada, Gonjuro Kawarazaki.
Summary:
When Kikunosuke, a mediocre actor from a famous Kabuki family falls in love with a maid, he is cast out. The faithful Otoku supports her husband as he struggles to perfect his art. In the end, she is quite ill, yet willing to leave her husband so that he may take his rightful place at the head of the Kabuki community.
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