Film · 1965

Snow Country

Name: Snow Country
Director: Hideo Ōba
Genre: Drama
Released: 1965-04-10

113 min · Directed by Hideo Ōba

Drama

6.73
ratings

Is parting grief or sweet sorrow? The geisha desperately groping for a true love!

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

Cast

Shima Iwashita

Komako

Mariko Kaga

Yoko

Isao Kimura

Shimamura

Tamotsu Hayakawa

Yukio

Shinichi Yanagisawa

Inn clerk

Sadako Sawamura

Dance teacher

Kaneko Iwasaki

Shimamura's wife

Chieko Naniwa

Blind masseuse

M

Mineko Yorozuyo

Kakuko Chino

Geisha Kikuyu

Mutsuko Sakura

Maid

Takanobu Hozumi

Taketoshi Naitō

Shimamura's friend Koizumi

Crew

Director: Hideo Ōba
Producer: Shizuo Yamanouchi
Writer: Ryōsuke Saitō, Yasunari Kawabata
Editor: Yoshi Sugihara
Cinematography: Tōichirō Narushima
Art Direction: Tadataka Yoshino
Composer: Naozumi Yamamoto

Details

Studios: Shochiku
Countries: Japan
Languages: Japanese
Release: April 10, 1965

Themes

based on novel or bookonsenshōwa era (1926-89)

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