Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.
- japan
- escape
- suicide attempt
- lover
- love
- extramarital affair
- bankruptcy
- kyoto
- japan
- locked in
- jidaigeki
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Yōko Minamida — Otama
- Haruo Tanaka — Gifuya Dôki
- Chieko Naniwa — Okô
- Ichirō Sugai — Gembei
- Tatsuya Ishiguro — Isan
- Hiroshi Mizuno — Kuroki
- Hisao Toake — Morinokoji
- Ikkei Tamaki — Jushiro Umegaki
- Kimiko Tachibana — Umetatsu Akamatsu
- Keiko Koyanagi — Okaya
- Sayako Nakagami — Osono
- Directed
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Written
- Yoshikata Yoda, Matsutarō Kawaguchi
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 153 ratings
- Studio
- Daiei Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
