An Artist of the Floating World

Overview

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into WWII.

Directed by Kazutaka Watanabe

Top cast

Ken Watanabe

Ono Masuji

Ryoko Hirosue

Murakami Setsuko

Aki Maeda

Ono Noriko

Kokoro Terada

Murakami Setsuko

Masato Wada

Murakami Soichi

Masato Hagiwara

Kuroda

Daichi Watanabe

Enchi

Kouhei Takeda

Miyake Jiro

Ryuta Sato

Shintaro

Natsuko Akiyama

Madam Kawakami

Eiji Okuda

Matsuda

Aoi Nakamura

Ono Masuji

Shunsuke Daitoh

Matsuda

Fumiyo Kohinata

Moriyama Seiji

Tomoya Maeno

Nakahara Yasunari

Shiro Sano

Dr. Saito

Kimiko Yo

Mrs. Saito

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