What is the duration of Appassionata?

The duration of Appassionata is 145 mins.

What is the original language of Appassionata?

The original language of Appassionata is Japanese.

Who directed Appassionata?

Appassionata was directed by Sadao Nakajima.

Which studio made Appassionata?

Appassionata was produced by Toei Company.

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Q: Does Appassionata have end credit scenes?

Appassionata does not have end credit scenes.

Drama

Runtime

145 mins

Language

Japanese

Based on Tomiko Miyao’s novel “Jo no mai”, the film follows Tsuya Shimamura, born in Kyoto to a tea trader who dies before her birth. A gifted painter, she enters art school, receives the name Shōsui, and gains fame when the Crown Prince of England buys her work. Modeled on Shōen Uemura, the first woman awarded the Order of Culture, it depicts her turbulent life—an affair with her teacher, raising a child alone—while she stays devoted to painting, culminating in her celebrated bijinga at 61.

Toei Company

Studio

Sadao Nakajima

Director

Does Appassionata have end credit scenes?

No!

Appassionata does not have end credit scenes. You can leave when the credits roll.

Meet the Full Cast and Actors of Appassionata

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Etsuko Ichihara

Narrator (voice)

Kei Satô

Mariko Okada

Sei Shimamura

Junkichi Orimoto

Hiroshi Tanaka

Postman

Kin Sugai

Yoshiko Mita

Morio Kazama

Ayako Kobayashi

Sei as a girl

Mieko Hoshino

Neighborhood lady

Takashi Noguchi

Takashi Ebata

Yūko Natori

Tsuya Shimamura

Rantaro Mine

Ryoichi Kusanagi

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Sei's uncle

Ken'ichi Nagira

Shingo Misawa

Mikio Narita

Michihiro Kinoshita

Rickshaw man

Masaharu Arikawa

Kojirō Kawanami

Kōjiro Shirakawa

Mineko Maruhira

Neighborhood lady

Tankurô

Kayoko Tominaga

Kura Shimamura

Junichi Hosokawa

Tsuyako Okajima

Tomiko Ishii

Midwife

Shirō Ōsaka

Aki Mizusawa

Shima Shimamura

Kunihiko Mitamura

Mieko Takamine

Eizō Kitamura

Yoshiro Ichikawa

Tokuko Miura

Naoji Iwata

Kojin Tokuda

Yoshihiro Igarashi

Gorō Ōki

Michiko Tsujima

Mitsue Wakabayashi

Sei's grandmother

Aki Sawa

Neighborhood lady

Mayumi Tokunaga

Neighborhood lady

Mayumi Eda

Waitress

Katsuko Ōkawa

Keiko Nanase

Girl

Yuka Monma

Momiji Yamamura

Yoshiki Yamada

Shintarō Mibu

Shunji Kotani

Yasushi Amaeda

Makoto Asai

Rickshaw man

Hiroyuki Sugaya

Sozaburo Yoshimi

Kozo Kotani

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Дзё-но-май Любовь и искусство Jo no mai 序之舞 Искусство и любовь

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