Sharaku
- Released on
Drama, History
•- Runtime
- 140 mins
(7 votes)
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.
Cast
- Hiroyuki Sanada
- Shima Iwashita
- Frankie Sakai
- Tsurutaro Kataoka
- Shiro Sano
- Riona Hazuki
- Toshiya Nagasawa
- Haruko Katō
- Taiko Shinbashi
- Masumi Miyazaki
- Chōichirō Kawarasaki
- Takashi Tsumura
- Naomasa Musaka
- Naoto Takenaka
- Bandō Mitsugorō X
- Tomijuro Nakamura V
- Ichikawa Danzō IX
- Nakamura Shibajaku VII
- Eisuke Sasai
- Hiroshi Arikawa
- Hiroki Ôkawa
- Tetsuya Chiba
- Kumiko Tsuchiya
- Shihori Nagasaka
- Kimiko Yo
- Ichirō Ogura
- Katsuhiko Hibino
- Naoji Iwata
- Jun Hamamura
- Bun Nakamura
- Masayuki Shida
- Kansuke Shimizu
- Satoko Yamamura
Director
- Masahiro Shinoda
Producers
- Masato Hara
Screenwriter
- Frankie Sakai
- Midori Katakura
- Masahiro Shinoda
- Hiroko Minagawa
