Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.
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Kazuo Hasegawa as Hikaru Genji
Denjirō Ōkōchi as Takuma nyudo
Michiyo Kogure as Fujitsubo
Mitsuko Mito as Aoi no ue
Machiko Kyō as Awaji no ue
Nobuko Otowa as Murasaki no ue
Yumiko Hasegawa as Oborozukiyo
Chieko Sōma as Kiritsubo
Yuriko Hanabusa as Kiritsubo's mother
Chieko Higashiyama as Lady Kokiden
Kōtarō Bandō as To no Chujo
Ichirō Sugai as Minister of the Left
Eitarō Shindō as Minister of the Right
Osamu Takizawa as Emperor Kiritsubo
Kōzaburō Yoshimura Director
Masaichi Nagata Executive Producer
Kōhei Sugiyama Director of Photography
Hiroshi Mizutani Art Direction
Kaneto Shindō Writer
Murasaki Shikibu Novel
Akira Ifukube Original Music Composer
Kenji Misumi Assistant Director
Junichirō Tanizaki Adaptation
Masao Ōsumi Sound Recordist
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Czech Republic 26 January 2013
Japan 11 June 1951
Russia 27 September 2011
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