The Heart (1955)
Original title: こころ
The Heart is a 1955 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Kon Ichikawa, with a running time of 2h. It stars Masayuki Mori, Michiyo Aratama and Tatsuya Mihashi.
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.
Cast
- Masayuki Mori as Nobuchi
- Michiyo Aratama as Shizu, Nobuchi's wife
- Tatsuya Mihashi as Kaji
- Shōji Yasui as Hioki Jiro
- Tanie Kitabayashi as Hioki's mother
- Akiko Tamura as Shizu's mother
- Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru as Hioki's father
- Tsutomu Shimomoto as Hioki's elder brother
- Masami Shimojō as Employment agent
- Tomoko Naraoka as Kume, the maid
- Akira Hisamatsu as Travelling monk
- Zenji Yamada as Nobuchi's uncle