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The Love of a Japanese Woman

19130.0 / 100
Drama

Overview

The wounded Russian Orloff, treated in a Japanese hospital, is watched over with devotion by the volunteer nurse Hanako, who seems charming to him. On Hanako's father's refusal, Lieutenant Orloff kidnaps the little geisha and brings her back to Moscow. Far from her native country, little Hanako no longer seems so pretty to the fickle Orloff who now prefers the beautiful Rayskaya. Unable to overcome her pain, the little geisha prefers to die.

Cast

Hanako

Hanako

Japanese nurse

Aleksandr Rudnitsky

Aleksandr Rudnitsky

Orlov, Russian prisoner of war

Yelena Smirnova

Yelena Smirnova

Rayskaya, Russian emigrant

Crew

Kai Hansen

Kai Hansen

Director

Yakov Protazanov

Yakov Protazanov

Co-Director

Sergey Garin

Sergey Garin

Writer

Joseph-Louis Mundwiller

Joseph-Louis Mundwiller

Director of Photography

Cheslav Sabinsky

Cheslav Sabinsky

Production Design