WIFE OF SEISHU HANAOKA (THE)
HANAOKA SEISHU NO TSUMA
4K
Drama
1967
B/W
99 mins.
- Director :
- Yasuzo Masumura
- Screenplay :
- Kaneto Shindo
- Original Story :
- Sawako Ariyoshi
- Cast :
- Raizo Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hideko Takamine
Introduction
Based on Sawako Ariyoshi's novel about Seishu Hanaoka, an Edo surgeon who performed the first successful anesthesia breast cancer operation. His mother and wife, both desperate for attention, offer themselves for his surgical trials.
©KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1967