Bronze Magician
Oct 05 1963
•2h 38m
•Drama, Fantasy
Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926).
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Raizō Ichikawa
монах Докё
Yukiko Fuji
императрица Сётоку
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Prime Minister
Hikosaburo Kataoka
Кинмаро
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