Portrait of Madame Yuki

Oct 21, 1950

1h 25m

★ 6.7

Overview

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Takimura Productions

Shintoho Company

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Cast

Yuki Shinano

Michiyo Kogure

Masaya Kikunaka

Ken Uehara

Naoyuki Shinano

Eijirō Yanagi

Hamako Abe

Yoshiko Kuga

Seitaro

Haruya Katō

Ayako

Yuriko Hamada

San

Kumeko Urabe

Osumi

Shizue Natsukawa

Tateoka

So Yamamura

Sushi bartender

Toshi Komori

Sushi bartender

Rei Ishikawa

Bellboy

Makoto Matsuzaki

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