The Heart

6.8
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 120 min
  • Premiere: 1955. August 31.

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.

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Michiyo Aratama

Shizu, Nobuchi's wife

Shōji Yasui

Hioki Jiro

Tanie Kitabayashi

Hioki's mother

Akiko Tamura

Shizu's mother

Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru

Hioki's father

Tsutomu Shimomoto

Hioki's elder brother

Masami Shimojō

Employment agent

Tomoko Naraoka

Kume, the maid

Akira Hisamatsu

Travelling monk

Zenji Yamada

Nobuchi's uncle

Keiji Itami

Kaji's father

Nobuo Kawakami

Undertaker

Kaoru Yamamoto

Lady of the lodgings

Art

Kazumi Koike

Art Direction

Camera

Takeo Itō

Director of Photography

Directing

Kon Ichikawa

Director

Toshio Masuda

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Sound

Yasushi Akutagawa

Original Music Composer

Masao Oki

Original Music Composer

Writing

Katsuhito Inomata

Screenplay

Keiji Hasebe

Screenplay

Art

Kazumi Koike

Art Direction

Camera

Takeo Itō

Director of Photography

Directing

Kon Ichikawa

Director

Toshio Masuda

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Sound

Yasushi Akutagawa

Original Music Composer

Masao Oki

Original Music Composer

Writing

Katsuhito Inomata

Screenplay

Keiji Hasebe

Screenplay