28 April 1959 Drama, Action 111 mins
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
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Toshirō Mifune as Heihachiro Komaki
Yōko Tsukasa as Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
Akira Takarada as Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe
Keiko Awaji as Nanae
Seizaburō Kawazu as Nagashima
Kamatari Fujiwara as Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)
Akihiko Hirata as Akaboshi
Eiko Miyoshi as Okuni
Sachio Sakai as (uncredited)
Yoshifumi Tajima as (uncredited)
Akira Tani as (uncredited)
Yutaka Sada as (uncredited)
Senkichi Ōmura as (uncredited)
Hideyo Amamoto as (uncredited)
Haruo Tanaka as (uncredited)
Kichijirō Ueda as (uncredited)
Akira Ifukube Original Music Composer
Hiroshi Inagaki Director
Tomoyuki Tanaka Producer
Hiroshi Inagaki Writer
Yoshiaki Ito Art Direction
Kazuo Yamada Director of Photography
Yoshio Nishikawa Sound
Teruo Maru Assistant Director
Kisaku Ito Production Design
Edmond Rostand Theatre Play
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Japan 28 April 1959
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Original Soundtrack Composed by Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭) Movie Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki (稲垣 浩
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25 September 1959
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17 May 1959
Bandit Denver Dooley travels to a lawless western town where he notices a sign, "No Bandits Allowed. Signed, Marshall Woody Woodpecker".
01 January 1959
An honest man dreams of a better life for his family, but a childhood friend leads him into a world of crime that keeps happiness just out of reach.
01 March 1959
A demolition squad searches for how the Germans are getting tanks across a river. An Italian boy leads them to a bridge under the surface of the water.
26 February 1959
A beautiful girl plans to seduce, then murder, the brutal conqueror who has taken over her city.
23 July 1959
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
01 January 1959
This film records the struggle for life within the Arctic Circle. It reveals flowers of startling beauty, whose entire life cycles last less than thirty days, and strange animals like the shaggy musk-ox, the shy lemming, and migrant water birds that survive in a land of vast deserts and almost perpetual cold.
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