Ukifune (film)

Ukifune
Japanese movie poster
Directed by	Teinosuke Kinugasa
Written by	Teinosuke Kinugasa (screenplay)
Music by	Ichirō Saitō
Distributed by	Daiei Film
Release date	30 April 1957 (1957-04-30) (Japan)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Ukifune (Japanese: 源氏物語　浮舟, Hepburn: Genji Monogatari: Ukifune) is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It is an adaptation of the latter part of the classic The Tale of Genji.

Cast

• Kazuo Hasegawa as Kaoru-no-kimi
• Fujiko Yamamoto as Ukifune
• Raizo Ichikawa as Niō-no-miya
• Nobuko Otowa as Naka-no-kimi
• Aiko Mimasu as Chūjō
• Nakamura Ganjirō II as the Emperor
• Tamao Nakamura as Ukifune's Maid
• Yōko Uraji as Ni-no-miya
• Eijirō Yanagi as Minister of Shirafuji
• Shunji Natsume as Ukon

References

External links

• Ukifune at IMDb
• 源氏物語　浮舟 at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
• 源氏物語・浮舟 (in Japanese). www.raizofan.net. Retrieved 24 January 2013.

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