The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.
Cast
Mai Kiryu
Tomoyo Hanakiku
Hanae Kan
Tamae Tokachigawa
Masahiro Higashide
Tetsu Nakahama
Kanichiro Sato
Daijiro Furuta
Yôko Kamon
Mitsu Tamatsubaki
Ai Nishina
Maki Wakanishiki
Kanako Mochida
Yoshi Kotenryu
Miho Harita
Ushi Yonaguni
Maho Yamada
Haru Kozakura
Ayaka Onishi
Katsu Katsutora
Misa Wada
Kiyo Hideriyama
Gôichi Mine
Sanji
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Tamasaburo Iwaki
Ryo Ikeda
Kozo Kawai
Kaoru Iida
Yoshio Ogawa
Ryuju Kobayashi
Yunoshin Tanaka
Kuu Izima
Gentaro Uchida
Ryunosuke Azuma
Eikichi Shigeno
Takashi Yamanaka
Kyutaro Wada
Arata Iura
Genjiro Muraki
Shima Onishi
Daigoro Iioka
Kyūsaku Shimada
Hanbee Tanaka
Kensaku Watanabe
Mizushima
Shohei Uno
Kazuo Morimoto
Takuji Suzuki
Sakanauri no Otoya
Tatsushi Ōmori
Matsutaro Shoriki
Atsushi Shinohara
Sadao
Shun Sugata
Maruman, Police Chief
Yohta Kawase
Kantaro Sakata, the Sponsor
Zenki Aramaki
Keiji Kurachi
Masatoshi Nagase
NarratorImages
Videos
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