Yumeji

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

Cast

Kenji Sawada

as Yumeji Takehisa

Yoshio Harada

as Wakiya

Tomoko Mariya

as Tomoyo Wakiya

Masumi Miyazaki

as Hikono

Tamasaburō Bandō V

as Onshu Inamura

Kazuhiko Hasegawa

as Onimatsu

Léona Hirota

as Oyo

Akaji Maro

as Criminal

Kimiko Yo

as Jiro

Chikako Miyagi

as Nanny

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