Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
15/12/2001
Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him.
Movie Information
Sayuri Yoshinaga
as Murasaki Shikibu
Yuki Amami
as Hikaru Genji
Toru Kazama
as
Morio Kazama
as
Kyôko Kishida
as
Naoto Takenaka
as
Seiko Matsuda
as
Takako Tokiwa
as
Ken Watanabe
as
Reiko Takashima
as
Rino Katase
as
Mitsuko Mori
as
Yoko Minamino
as
Fumie Hosokawa
as
Shinobu Nakayama
as
Keiko Takeshita
as
Tsurutaro Kataoka
as
Shigeru Kōyama
as
Takeshi Katō
as
Aki Maeda
as
Takami Mizuhashi
as
Kazuyo Asari
as
Junkichi Orimoto
as
Taro Yamamoto
as
Hirotaro Honda
as
Yasunori Danta
as
Tadahiko Hirano
as
Machiko Washio
as
Taeko Hattori
as
Ichiro Shinjitsu
as
Satoshi Hashimoto
as
Hiroyuki Kinoshita
as
