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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03 June 1959
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life.
28 November 1959
A trend-setting Kannada hit, loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew
01 November 1959
The powerful drama of a betrayal which sowed revenge in a man's heart.
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.
04 March 1959
When a ship bringing a contingent of international wounded from Korea is torpedoed, three women (two nurses and a secretary) and a male journalist survive and reach a lonely island in a boat.
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.
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.
30 December 1959
During the Warring States Period, Nung-yuk, the Princess of Qin, denounces the mundane world and dreams of marrying an immortal.
03 October 1959
An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.
01 January 1959
Follows the efforts to gain the right to vote for Negroes through a succession of legal decision and social changes.
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