Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)
Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)
Top Cast
Fujiko Yamamoto
Character: Komako Shirokoya
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Character: Chuhachi
Mieko Kondō
Character: Ogin
Minoru Chiaki
Character: Matashiro
Ryūzō Shimada
Character: Tango Abe
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Character: Shozaburo Shirokoya
Chikako Hosokawa
Character: Otsune Shirokoya
Fujio Murakami
Character: Seizaburo
Ichirō Izawa
Character: Seibei
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