The Love of a Japanese Woman

  • Genre: Drama
  • Premiere: 1913. June 4.

The wounded Russian Orloff, treated in a Japanese hospital, is watched over with devotion by the volunteer nurse Hanako, who seems charming to him. On Hanako's father's refusal, Lieutenant Orloff kidnaps the little geisha and brings her back to Moscow. Far from her native country, little Hanako no longer seems so pretty to the fickle Orloff who now prefers the beautiful Rayskaya. Unable to overcome her pain, the little geisha prefers to die.

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Hanako

Japanese nurse

Aleksandr Rudnitsky

Orlov, Russian prisoner of war

Yelena Smirnova

Rayskaya, Russian emigrant

Art

Cheslav Sabinsky

Production Design

Camera

Joseph-Louis Mundwiller

Director of Photography

Directing

Kai Hansen

Director

Yakov Protazanov

Co-Director

Writing

Art

Cheslav Sabinsky

Production Design

Camera

Joseph-Louis Mundwiller

Director of Photography

Directing

Kai Hansen

Director

Yakov Protazanov

Co-Director

Writing