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Released
1946 · FILM

Utamaro and His Five Women

Directed by
Runtime
94 min
Language
JA
Drama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the Tokyo brothels provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women vie for lovers, and, occasionally, his art gets him into trouble.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Shintaro MiyamotoShot by Minoru MikiScored by Tamezo MochizukiDesigned by Isamu Motoki

Also known as

  • Utamaro und seine fünf Frauende
  • Utamaro and His Five Womenen
  • Utamaro y sus cinco mujereses
  • Cinq femmes autour d'Utamarofr
  • Utamaro e le sue cinque mogliit

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