The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

Overview

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

Directed by Yasuzō Masumura

Top cast

Raizō Ichikawa

Umpei 'Seishu' Hanaoka

Ayako Wakao

Kae

Hideko Takamine

Otsugi, Umpei's mother

Yūnosuke Itō

Seishu's father

Saburo Date

Ryôan Shimomura

Misako Watanabe

Kuriko

Chisako Hara

Okatsu

Yatsuko Tan'ami

Chisako Hara

Chieko Naniwa

Taketoshi Naitō

Kenzō Tabu

Gen Kimura

Shōzō Nanbu

Y

Yoichi Funaki

T

Tokio Oki

K

Kanji Uehara

S

Shinjiro Akatsuki

Haruko Sugimura

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