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Appassionata

Drama

This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.

Date: 01/14/1984

Rating: 5.0

Cast: Yûko Natori, Morio Kazama, Kunihiko Mitamura, Aki Mizusawa, Mariko Okada, Mieko Takamine, Yoshiko Mita, Ayako Kobayashi, Shirō Ōsaka, Kōjirō Kusanagi, Kin Sugai, Junkichi Orimoto, Tomiko Ishii, Shingo Misawa, Eizō Kitamura, Takashi Ebata, Takashi Noguchi, Ryoichi Kusanagi, Ken'ichi Nagira, Yoshiro Ichikawa, Tokuko Miura, Naoji Iwata, Mineko Maruhira, Kojin Tokuda, Masaharu Arikawa, Kojirō Kawanami, Kōjiro Shirakawa, Yoshihiro Igarashi, Gorō Ōki, Michiko Tsujima, Tsuyako Okajima, Mitsue Wakabayashi, Kayoko Tominaga, Mieko Hoshino, Aki Sawa, Mayumi Tokunaga, Tankurô, Junichi Hosokawa, Mayumi Eda, Katsuko Ōkawa, Keiko Nanase, Yuka Monma, Hiroshi Tanaka, Momiji Yamamura, Yoshiki Yamada, Shintarō Mibu, Shunji Kotani, Rantaro Mine, Michihiro Kinoshita, Yasushi Amaeda, Makoto Asai, Hiroyuki Sugaya, Sozaburo Yoshimi, Kozo Kotani, Etsuko Ichihara, Mikio Narita, Kei Satō

Yûko Natori