What Price Love?

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/)

Cast

Fujiko Yamamoto

Komako Shirokoya

Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Chuhachi

Mieko Kondō

Ogin

Minoru Chiaki

Matashiro

Ryūzō Shimada

Tango Abe

Ganjirō Nakamura II

Shozaburo Shirokoya

Chikako Hosokawa

Chikako Hosokawa

Otsune Shirokoya

Fujio Murakami

Fujio Murakami

Seizaburo

Ichirō Izawa

Seibei

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Chobei Kagaya

San'emon Arashi

San'emon Arashi

Saburo Date

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