Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father’s prostitute as his wife.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Actors: Ayako Wakao, Ichirō Amano, Jun Hamamura, Junichiro Yamashita, Kō Nishimura, Saburo Date, San'emon Arashi, Taiji Tonoyama, Tamao Nakamura, Yūsaku Terashima
The First Time is the Last Time
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