Poppy

Overview

Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

Top cast

Yukichi Iwata

Tomotaka Inoue

Kasuke Koizumi

Land owner

Kuniko Miyake

Fujio Kono

Daijiro Natsukawa

Hajime Munechika

T

Tōichirō Negishi

Asai

A

Ayako Nijo

Itoko

K

Kazuyoshi Takeda

Kingo Kono

M

Mitsugu Terashima

Munechika's father

Ichirō Tsukida

Seizo Ono

Yōko Umemura

Fujio's mother

Chiyoko Ôkura

Sayako Inoue

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