An Actress

An Actress (女優, Joyū) is a 1956 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō.^[1][2] It is based on the autobiography of actress Kakuko Mori.^[2]

An Actress
Directed by	Kaneto Shindō
Written by	Kaneto Shindō (screenplay) Kakuko Mori (book)
Produced by	Hisao Itoya Tengo Yamada Setsuo Noto
Starring	Nobuko Otowa Chikako Hosokawa Eitarō Ozawa
Cinematography	Yoshio Miyajima
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production company	Kindai Eiga Kyokai
Distributed by	Shintoho
Release date	27 November 1956 (1956-11-27) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

• Nobuko Otowa as Kakuko Mori
• Chikako Hosokawa as Tsukiko, Kakuko's mother
• Shinsuke Ashida as Shinichirō Yagi
• Sen Hara as Chiyo, Akio's mother
• Sumiko Hidaka as Yugiku Yoshiya
• Tanie Kitabayashi
• Kei Taguchi as Tabata
• Taketoshi Naitō as Akio Satomi
• Eitarō Ozawa as Tarō Fujie (credited as Sakae Ozawa)
• Zenpei Saga as Sugisaburō
• Koreya Senda as Yasuda
• Ichirō Shimizu as Kunijirō Matsukawa
• Taiji Tonoyama
• Eijirō Tōno as Tadao Inoue
• Jūkichi Uno as Toshirō Yamashita