Immortal Love

1961 Japanese drama film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Immortal Love

Immortal Love a.k.a. Bitter Spirit (Japanese: 永遠の人, romanized: Eien no Hito, lit.'The eternal Person') is a 1961 Japanese drama film written and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.[3] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[4] Masakazu Tamura made his official debut in the film.[5]

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Kanji永遠の人
Directed byKeisuke Kinoshita
Written byKeisuke Kinoshita
Produced by
  • Keisuke Kinoshita
  • Sennosuke Tsukimori
Starring
CinematographyHiroshi Kusuda
Edited byYoshi Sugihara
Music byChūji Kinoshita
Production
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Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • September 16, 1961 (1961-09-16)
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Running time
107 minutes[1][2]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
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Plot

Over a time span of 30 years, the film tells the story of Sadako, who is pressured into a marriage with Heibei, the crippled war veteran son of the local landlord, although she loves Takashi, a young man from the same village. Takashi later marries Tomoko, but neither he nor Sadako can forget their past mutual affection.

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