The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

Overview

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

Release date

Oct 28, 1967

Rating

6.9 / 10

Runtime

1 hours 39 minutes

Genres

Drama

Cast

Raizō Ichikawa
As Umpei 'Seishu' Hanaoka
Ayako Wakao
As Kae
Hideko Takamine
As Otsugi, Umpei's mother
Yūnosuke Itō
As Seishu's father
Saburo Date
As Ryôan Shimomura
Misako Watanabe
As Kuriko
Chisako Hara
As Okatsu
Yatsuko Tan'ami
As
Chisako Hara
As
Chieko Naniwa
As
Taketoshi Naitō
As
Kenzō Tabu
As
Gen Kimura
As
Shōzō Nanbu
As
Yoichi Funaki
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As
Tokio Oki
As
Kanji Uehara
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As
Shinjiro Akatsuki
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As
Haruko Sugimura
As

Crew

Yasuzō Masumura
Role: Director
Setsuo Kobayashi
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Role: Director of Photography
Kanji Suganuma
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Role: Editor
Kaneto Shindō
Role: Screenplay
Hikaru Hayashi
Role: Original Music Composer
Hiroshi Mima
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Role: Lighting Technician
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Role: Art Direction
Masao Ōsumi
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Role: Sound Recordist
Masaichi Nagata
Role: Producer
Sawako Ariyoshi
Role: Novel