Beauty and the Thief

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.

Director: Keigo Kimura

Cast: Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Rentaro Mikuni, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Bokuzen Hidari, Yūnosuke Itō, Tanie Kitabayashi

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.