Night Drum
Yoru no tsuzumi
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman's husband blames himself for his wife's straying and attempts to thwart the law demanding capital punishment.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Rentarō Mikuni
Hikokurô Ogura
Ineko Arima
Otane, Hikokurô's wife
Masayuki Mori
Miyaji, the drum teacher
Sumiko Hidaka
Oyura
Keiko Yukishiro
Tomoko Naraoka
Maid Orin
Emiko Azuma
Kikue Môri
Kiku, the grandmother
Shizue Natsukawa
Naka
Kichiemon Nakamura
Bunroku Ogura
Akira Ifukube
Composer
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Shunichirô Nakao
Cinematographer