Cape of the North

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

Cast

Claude Jade

as Marie-Thérèse

Gō Katō

as Mitsuo

Tomoko Ogawa

as Naoko

Kinuyo Tanaka

as Old Nun

Wataru Kobayashi

as Former mine worker

Kayoko Onishi

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