CAST:
Kazuo Hasegawa (Hikaru Genji),
Michiyo Kogure (Fujitsubo),
Machiko Kyô (Awaji no ue),
Nobuko Otowa (Murasaki no ue),
Mitsuko Mito (Aoi no ue)

SCRIPT:
Kaneto Shindô (prema romanu Murasaki Shikibu)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Kôhei Sugiyama

Synopsis:
The legend of Genji is a one thousand year-old story about an emperor's son, an attractive and charming young nobleman. Even though he has all the prerequisites for a happy life, including numerous affairs with a variety of girls, he is deeply unhappy. Secretly he yearns for the one woman whom he cannot have: his father’s concubine Fujitsubo. She feels the same about him, but nobody in the court must discover their relationship.

35 mm, b/w, 121 min