Movie
Sakuran
Overview
Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.
Details
- Release date
- 2006-12-07
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Asmik Ace, PARCO, Kodansha, TV Asahi, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, WOWOW, Nagoya Broadcasting Network, dentsu, Cinema Investment, TOWER RECORDS Japan
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Anna Tsuchiya as Kiyoha
- Kippei Shiina as Kuranosuke
- Hiroki Narimiya as Sojiro
- Yoshino Kimura as Takao
- Miho Kanno as Shohi
- Masatoshi Nagase as Mitsunobu
- Masanobu Ando as Seiji
- Kayoko Aoyagi
- Kenichi Endo as Sakaguchi
- Mayu Fujimori as Yunagi
- Yasushi Higuchi
- Akiko Hoshino as Practitioner
Crew
- Mika Ninagawa - Director
- Yuki Tanada - Screenplay
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