Summary A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. Eiko and Omoi are jailed because of a fire at a factory instigated by Chiyo, a servant girl from Eiko's home in Okayama, who was sold to slavery. A few years later the 1889 constitution is proclaimed, Eiko, Omoi, and Chiyo are pardoned, and the Liberal Party is reinaugurated. However Omoi does not campaign for women's rights. View more details
Directed : Kenji Mizoguchi
Written : Kaneto Shindô Yoshikata Yoda Kôgo Noda
Stars : Ichirô Sugai Kinuyo Tanaka Mitsuko Mito Kuniko Miyake
Genres : Drama Romance
Release date : Feb 8, 1949
Countries of origin : Japan
Language : Japanese
Production companies : Shochiku
Summary A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. Eiko and Omoi are jailed because of a fire at a factory instigated by Chiyo, a servant girl from Eiko's home in Okayama, who was sold to slavery. A few years later the 1889 constitution is proclaimed, Eiko, Omoi, and Chiyo are pardoned, and the Liberal Party is reinaugurated. However Omoi does not campaign for women's rights. View more details
Genres : Drama Romance
Release date : Feb 8, 1949
Countries of origin : Japan
Language : Japanese
Production companies : Shochiku
