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)
Hiroshi Inagaki Director
Hiroshi Inagaki Writer
Tomoyuki Tanaka Producer
Akira Ifukube Original Music Composer
Kazuo Yamada Director of Photography
Yoshiaki Ito Art Direction
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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16 September 1959
Written by the great librettist Tong Tik-sang, and featuring Lee Tit's elegant direction and superb performances from Yam Kim-fai and Pak Suet-sin, "Butterfly and Red Pear Blossom" brings Cantonese opera to cinematic life.
23 July 1959
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
17 May 1959
Bandit Denver Dooley travels to a lawless western town where he notices a sign, "No Bandits Allowed. Signed, Marshall Woody Woodpecker".
08 March 1959
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
01 January 1959
The film is about Necdet trying to find his sister Selman. Necdet and Selman haven't seen each other in eleven years.
13 November 1959
Paul Dixon (Dermot Walsh) is a fiercely competitive racing driver whose meteoric career is cut short after he is paralyzed in a collision.
06 August 1959
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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