Storyline
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Released
28 April 1959
Runtime
1h 51min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
Japanese
Production
TOHO
Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Heihachiro Komaki
Yōko Tsukasa
Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
Akira Takarada
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe
Keiko Awaji
Nanae
Seizaburō Kawazu
Nagashima
Kamatari Fujiwara
Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)
Akihiko Hirata
Akaboshi
Eiko Miyoshi
Okuni
Sachio Sakai
(uncredited)
Yoshifumi Tajima
(uncredited)
Akira Tani
(uncredited)
Yutaka Sada
(uncredited)
Senkichi Ōmura
(uncredited)
Hideyo Amamoto
(uncredited)
Haruo Tanaka
(uncredited)
Kichijirō Ueda
(uncredited)
Fumindo Matsuo
(uncredited)
Chieko Nakakita
(uncredited)
Akira Sera
(uncredited)
Mitsuo Tsuda
(uncredited)
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
(uncredited)
Setsuko Wakayama
(uncredited)
Ren Yamamoto
(uncredited)
Shin Ōtomo
(uncredited)
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