The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

1h 39m

Drama

6.2

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

Cast

Raizō Ichikawa

Umpei 'Seishu' Hanaoka

Ayako Wakao

Kae

Hideko Takamine

Otsugi, Umpei's mother

Yūnosuke Itō

Seishu's father

Saburo Date

Ryôan Shimomura

Misako Watanabe

Kuriko

Chisako Hara

Okatsu, Unknown

Yatsuko Tan'ami

Unknown

Chieko Naniwa

Unknown

Taketoshi Naitō

Unknown

Kenzō Tabu

Unknown

Gen Kimura

Unknown

Shōzō Nanbu

Unknown

Yoichi Funaki

Unknown

Tokio Oki

Unknown

Kanji Uehara

Unknown

Shinjiro Akatsuki

Unknown

Haruko Sugimura

Unknown

Crew

Yasuzō Masumura

Director

Kaneto Shindō

Screenplay

Sawako Ariyoshi

Novel

Kanji Suganuma

Editor

Setsuo Kobayashi

Director of Photography

Masaichi Nagata

Producer

Masao Ōsumi

Sound Recordist

Hiroshi Mima

Lighting Technician

Hikaru Hayashi

Original Music Composer

Yoshinobu Nishioka

Art Direction