Poppy
movie
Released October 31, 1935
Overview
Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. But she falls in love with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono is himself bound by an engagement to Sayoko, the daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue. The self-centered Fujio is ready to forsake everything for Ono, but he is prevailed upon to go ahead with his marriage to Sayoko. Fujio then offers the watch to Munechika who, perceiving Fujio’s true feelings, hurls the watch into the sea.
Cast
Yukichi Iwata
as
Tomotaka Inoue
Kasuke Koizumi
as
Land owner
Kuniko Miyake
as
Fujio Kono
Daijirō Natsukawa
as
Hajime Munechika
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Tōichirō Negishi
as
Asai
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Ayako Nijo
as
Itoko
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Kazuyoshi Takeda
as
Kingo Kono
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Mitsugu Terashima
as
Munechika's father
Ichirō Tsukida
as
Seizo Ono
Yōko Umemura
as
Fujio's mother
Chiyoko Ôkura
as
Sayako Inoue
Crew
Kenji Mizoguchi
as
Director
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Ishitaro Takagi
as
Hairstylist
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Yosinosuke Takeuchi
as
Sound Effects Editor
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Daizaburo Nakamura
as
Costume Design
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Ishitaro Takagi
as
Assistant Director
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Terakado Seikichi
as
Assistant Director
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Haruto Sato
as
Assistant Director
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Tatsuro Horikoshi
as
Lighting Technician
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Yoshinosuke Kitanishi
as
Lighting Technician
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Hichiro Nishi
as
Production Design
Tazuko Sakane
as
Assistant Director
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Tatsuki Murita
as
Sound Director