Nihonbashi (Nihonbashi; "The Japanese Bridge")

• Japan 1956, 112 min.

Director:

• ICHIKAWA Kon

Starring:

• AWASHIMA Chikage
• YAMAMOTO Fujiko

Notes:

• Nihonbashi is a story of mystery and the complexity of woman's attachment to love in the world of geisha girls. It is adorned with the downtown Edo (Tokyo) atmosphere.
  

• IZUMI Kyoka (1873-1939), a distinguished writer of modern Japanese literature with a unique style, who has gained popularity within contemporary society, has published his novel "Nihonbashi" in 1914. It was first cinematized in 1929 by MIZOGUCHI Kenji in black and white. The gifted director ICHIKAWA Kon has prepared this colour film version from a screenplay written by his wife WADA Natto. It was a great challenge for him to shoot the setting and subject of the Meiji Era (1969-1912). He attempts to reproduce the beauty of IZUMI's world of emotions with the help of colour and lighting to add to the atmosphere of the Nihonbashi world of yesterday.