The Beauty and the Dragon
- Original title
- Kabuki juhachiban: Narukami - Bijo to kairyu
- Year
- 1955
- Running time
- 106 min.
- Country
- Japan
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Chiyonosuke Azuma
- Nobuko Otowa
- Chojuro Kawarasaki
- Yoshizaburo Arashi
- Sumiko Hidaka
- Shonosuke Ichikawa
- Yûji Kamishiro
- Eijirô Kataoka
- Kunitarô Kawarazaki
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- Music
- Cinematography
Yoshio Miyajima (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Fantasy. Drama
- Synopsis
- A period-film in which the famous Kabuki play Narukami was brought throughly up to date. Somewhat in the manner of Henry V, the film opens with a reconstruction of a classical performance of the play, accurately recreating a historical presentation in the proper style; it then moves, as a film, into a more cinematic interpretation. As in the Olivier movie, the acting style shifts from stage technique to cinema technique, and Yoshimura's aim, like Olivier's, was not a total reconstruction of the past but the use of a historically literal presentation as means toward something more modern in conception.
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