Song of Dawn

May 26, 1965

1h 33m

★ 0.0

Overview

Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a role in a new production that appears to mirror her own private life... An excellent work that stylishly depicts its gradually evolving heroine.

Genres

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Nikkatsu Corporation

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Cast

Noriko Midorikawa

Ruriko Asaoka

Nakahara

Eimei Esumi

Fujiki

Takashi Fujiki

Arihiro Fujimura

Toshio

Mitsuo Hamada

Tomoko Hamakawa

Maki

Hōsei Komatsu

Chikako

Chieko Matsubara

Masumi Okada

Tomio

Hajime Sugiyama

Hiromi Katô

Yuji Odaka

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