28 April 1959 Drama, Action 111 mins
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
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Toshirō Mifune as Heihachiro Komaki
Yōko Tsukasa as Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
Akira Takarada as Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe
Keiko Awaji as Nanae
Seizaburō Kawazu as Nagashima
Kamatari Fujiwara as Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)
Akihiko Hirata as Akaboshi
Eiko Miyoshi as Okuni
Sachio Sakai as (uncredited)
Yoshifumi Tajima as (uncredited)
Akira Tani as (uncredited)
Yutaka Sada as (uncredited)
Senkichi Ōmura as (uncredited)
Hideyo Amamoto as (uncredited)
Haruo Tanaka as (uncredited)
Kichijirō Ueda as (uncredited)
Akira Ifukube Original Music Composer
Hiroshi Inagaki Director
Tomoyuki Tanaka Producer
Hiroshi Inagaki Writer
Yoshiaki Ito Art Direction
Kazuo Yamada Director of Photography
Yoshio Nishikawa Sound
Teruo Maru Assistant Director
Kisaku Ito Production Design
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Japan 28 April 1959
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Original Soundtrack Composed by Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭) Movie Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki (稲垣 浩
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27 February 1959
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03 November 1959
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26 June 1959
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08 October 1959
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21 January 1959
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21 December 1959
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25 March 1959
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10 October 1959
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