Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007.
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The people behind it
Yōko Umemura
Okichi
Reiji Ichiki
Heusken
Kunio Tamura
Matsu
Kōju Murata
Akemi Isshiki
Okiku (Okichi's maid)
Gunnosuke Kanehira
Interpreter
Kōji Shima
Tsurumatsu
Ichirō Sugai
Denkichi
Yutaka Mimasu
Shinjiro Isa
Shiko Saito
Abe Ise-no-kami
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