Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums, The - (Movie Clip) Not A Servant's Job

Name: Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums, The -- (Movie Clip) Not A Servant's Job
Uploaded: 2013-06-18T00:00:00-04:00
Duration: 2 min 55 s
Description: Kisho Hanayagi, playing the adoptive mother of rising Kabuki actor Kikunosuke, scolds Otoku (Kakuko Mori), wet-nurse for his baby brother, for taking an interest in his career, launching a central conflict, in Kenzo Mizoguchi's The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums, 1939.

Kisho Hanayagi, playing the adoptive mother of rising Kabuki actor Kikunosuke, scolds Otoku (Kakuko Mori), wet-nurse for his baby brother, for taking an interest in his career, launching a central conflict, in Kenzo Mizoguchi's The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums, 1939.

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