Ejima and Ikushima
- Released on
- Runtime
- 126 mins
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contact with any other man except in the presence of the Shogun. The institution played a key role in the Byzantine world of Japanese court politics during the Edo era. In 1714, Lady Ejima was sent to pay her respects at a Buddhist temple in the city, and chose to pay an unauthorised visit to the kabuki theatre – a violation of protocol that was to have tragic consequences.
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contact with any other man except in the presence of the Shogun. The institution played a key role in the Byzantine world of Japanese court politics during the Edo era. In 1714, Lady Ejima was sent to pay her respects at a Buddhist temple in the city, and chose to pay an unauthorised visit to the kabuki theatre – a violation of protocol that was to have tragic consequences.
Cast
- Chikage Awashima
- Ichikawa Danjūrō XI
- Mitsuko Kusabue
- Mieko Takamine
- Kuniko Miyake
- Ichikawa Sadanji III
- 小林きよし
- 阪東彦三郎
- Teiji Takahashi
- Tatsuya Ishiguro
- Eijirō Yanagi
- Joji Kaieda
- Kōmei Minami
- Akitake Kōno
- Isao Yamagata
- Yatsuko Tan'ami
- Kyōko Kusajima
- Yōko Kozono
- 高木悠子
- Sadako Sawamura
- Shōroku Onoe II
- Shigeru Onoe
- 尾上菊蔵
- 市川滝之亟
- Ryōsuke Kagawa
- Hiroshi Aoyama
- 尾上多賀之亟
- Mitsuo Nagata
- Kōji Mitsui
- Yoshito Yamaji
- Shinobu Araki
- Fujio Suga
- Daisuke Katō
- Tomiemon Otomo
- Jinichi Amano
- Rintarō Fujima
Director
- Hideo Ōba
Producers
- 白井和夫
