Akitsu Hot Springs
Jun 15 1962
•2h 53m
•Romance, Drama
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
Cast
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Mariko Okada
Shinko
Hiroyuki Nagato
Shusaku Kawamoto
Sō Yamamura
Mikami
Jūkichi Uno
Kenkichi Matsumiya
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