A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.
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Mariko Okada
Naoko Toba
Tadashi Yokouchi
Makoto Kawamura
Paul Beauvais
Robert Fitzgerald
Hélène Soubielle
Mary Fitzgerald
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The Virgin (1924)
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