A Woman's Testament
1960 Japanese film
- 14 January 1960 (1960-01-14) (Japan)[1]
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A Woman's Testament (女経, Jokyō) is a 1960 Japanese drama anthology film directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kon Ichikawa and Yasuzō Masumura.[1][2]
Plot
The film consists of three stories revolving around women. The first story is about a young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. She has what seems like a good plan for a strong financial future; she is investing in a company on the one hand, and on the other, taking action to snare the son of the company's owner in marriage. In the second story, a young woman is employed by a real estate agent in order to convince male clients to invest in worthless property, usually by bathing with them. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no financial worries. But when she falls in love with a forger, she opts to wait for him after he is sent to prison. This causes trouble for her in family and society, but she ignores them despite the pressure.
Cast
- Episode 1 (directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
- Ayako Wakao as Kimi
- Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Tabata
- Sachiko Hidari as Satsuki
- Jirō Tamiya as Harumoto
- Chieko Murata as Otatsu
- Episode 2 (directed by Kon Ichikawa)
- Fujiko Yamamoto as Tsuneko
- Eiji Funakoshi as Yasushi
- Hitomi Nozoe as the girl
- Episode 3 (directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura)
- Machiko Kyō as Omitsu
- Nakamura Ganjirō II as Gosuke
- Junko Kano as Yumiko
- Jun Negishi as Kanemitsu
Release
A Woman's Testament was screened at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival.[3][4]
References
External links
- A Woman's Testament at IMDb
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Films directed by Kon Ichikawa
- A Thousand and One Nights with Toho (1947)
- The Heart (1955)
- The Burmese Harp (1956)
- The Hole (1957)
- Conflagration (1958)
- Odd Obsession (1959)
- Fires on the Plain (1959)
- A Woman's Testament (1960)
- Her Brother (1960)
- Ten Dark Women (1961)
- Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
- An Actor's Revenge (1963)
- Alone Across the Pacific (1963)
- Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
- Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967)
- To Love Again (1971)
- Visions of Eight (1973)
- The Inugami Family (1976)
- Hi no Tori (1978)
- Rhyme of Vengeance (1978)
- Byoinzaka no Kubikukuri no Ie (1979)
- Koto (1980)
- Kofuku (1981)
- The Makioka Sisters (1983)
- Ohan (1984)
- The Burmese Harp (1985)
- Princess from the Moon (1987)
- Kaettekita Kogarashi Monjirō (1993)
- 47 Ronin (1994)
- Dora-heita (2001)
- The Inugamis (2006)
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