Regie:
Yasuzo MasumuraScenario:
Yoshio ShirasakaCamera:
Michio TakahashiMuziek:
Taiichirô KosugiActeurs:
Ayako Wakao, Kenji Sugawara, Keizô Kawasaki, Jirō Tamiya, Chieko Higashiyama, Kuniko Miyake, ミヤコ蝶々, 叶順子, Sadako Sawamura, Hiroko Machida, Hiroko Yajima (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Masumura’s sophomore feature marks his first collaboration with iconic star Ayako Wakao – a legendary partnership that would spawn twenty of the pair’s best films. Wakao plays Yûko, a willful 18-year-old high school student who leaves her small village in search of her estranged cleaning lady mother and her businessman father, who never acknowledged her. As Yûko ventures to find her place in her father’s dysfunctional household, A Cheerful Girl swiftly switches gears from a Sirkian melodrama to a blithe deconstruction of the post-war nuclear family, charged with irony, mischievousness, and utter irreverence for the venerated Japanese family drama. Filmed in gorgeously earthy pastel colors, A Cheerful Girl is one of the most atypical coming-of-age Asian pictures of the 1950s. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(meer)Acteurs
Ayako Wakao
Japan
Beste films:
Liefde was haar Beroep (1966)
Zatôichi to Yôjinbô (1970)
Aozora musume (1957)
Kenji Sugawara
Japan
Beste films:
Aozora musume (1957)
Keizô Kawasaki
Japan
Beste films:
Aozora musume (1957)
Jirō Tamiya
Japan
Beste films:
Aozora musume (1957)
Kuro no tesuto kaa (1962)
Ikare doku hebi - Moku geki sha wo kese (1976)
Chieko Higashiyama
Japan
Beste films:
Early Summer (1951)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Aozora musume (1957)
Kuniko Miyake
Japan
Beste films:
Early Summer (1951)
Sóšun (1956)
Akibiyori (1960)
ミヤコ蝶々
Japan
Beste films:
Zatôichi kenka-daiko (1968)
Aozora musume (1957)
Fukušú suru wa ware ni ari (1979)
叶順子
Japan
Beste films:
Aozora musume (1957)
Kuro no tesuto kaa (1962)
Sadako Sawamura
Japan
Beste films:
Kiga kaikjó (1965)
Akibiyori (1960)
Ohayō (1959)
Hiroko Machida
Japan
Beste films:
Šizukanaru kettó (1949)
Aozora musume (1957)
Akasen čitai (1956)
Hiroko Yajima
Japan
Beste films:
Aozora musume (1957)
Yuko Yashio
Beste films:
Aozora musume (1957)
Eiichi Takamura
Japan
Beste films:
Aozora musume (1957)
Kuro no tesuto kaa (1962)