Actress

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

With Isuzu Yamada, Yoshi Hijikata, Ranko Akagi, Noriko Sengoku and Fusako Fujima

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a scholar who brought European realism to the Japanese stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society.