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LOVE UNDER THE CRUCIFIX
- 原題
- お吟さま
- Original Title
- Ogin-sama お吟さま
- Production Year
- 1962
- Release Date
- June 3, 1962
- Running Time
- 102min.
- Genre
- Drama / Samurai
- Color
- Color
- Material
- DCP
- Director
- Kinuyo Tanaka(田中絹代)
- Cast
- Ineko Arima（有馬稲子）
Tatsuya Nakadai（仲代達矢）
Ganjiro Nakamura（中村鴈治郎）
Pioneer of female directors in Japan, Kinuyo Tanaka’s 6th and final film.
- Synopsis
- A film about the tragic love of Ogin who is the daughter of a master of the Japanese tea ceremony (Sado), Sen no Rikyu and a Christian Samurai lord Takayama Ukon, based on a novel by Kon Toukou.
Ogin marries a wealthy merchant despite being in love with Ukon. She is also asked to become a mistress of Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In order to pursue her love and fight against authority, she must make the ultimate decision. Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka, the film depicts the struggle of Ogin surviving from a female perspective and portrays the beauty of the Momoyama culture (from around year 1568 to 1600).