Poppy
Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi · Written by Daisuke Itō
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Cast
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Yukichi Iwata Tomotaka Inoue -
Kasuke Koizumi Land owner -
Kuniko Miyake Fujio Kono -
Daijiro Natsukawa Hajime Munechika - Tōichirō Negishi Asai
- Ayako Nijo Itoko
- Kazuyoshi Takeda Kingo Kono
- Mitsugu Terashima Munechika's father
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Ichirō Tsukida Seizo Ono -
Yōko Umemura Fujio's mother -
Chiyoko Ôkura Sayako Inoue
Make it a double feature
3h 36m togetherBoth from Kenji Mizoguchi.
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