Appassionata [398583] Released: 1984-01-14 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 145 mins Popularity: 0.9358 Vote Average: 5 Vote Count: 1 Overview: This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted. Cast [57] Yūko NatoriTsuya Shimamura Morio Kazama Kunihiko Mitamura Aki MizusawaShima Shimamura Mariko OkadaSei Shimamura Mieko Takamine Yoshiko Mita Ayako KobayashiSei as a girl Shirō Ōsaka Kōjirō KusanagiSei's uncle Kin Sugai Junkichi Orimoto Tomiko IshiiMidwife Shingo Misawa Eizō Kitamura Takashi Ebata Takashi Noguchi Ryoichi Kusanagi Ken'ichi Nagira Yoshiro Ichikawa Tokuko Miura Naoji Iwata Mineko MaruhiraNeighborhood lad Kojin Tokuda Masaharu Arikawa Kojirō Kawanami Kōjiro Shirakawa Yoshihiro Igarashi Gorō Ōki Michiko Tsujima Tsuyako Okajima Mitsue WakabayashiSei's grandmothe Kayoko TominagaKura Shimamura Mieko HoshinoNeighborhood lad Aki SawaNeighborhood lad Mayumi TokunagaNeighborhood lad Tankurô Junichi Hosokawa Mayumi EdaWaitress Katsuko Ōkawa Keiko NanaseGirl Yuka Monma Hiroshi TanakaPostman Momiji Yamamura Yoshiki Yamada Shintarō Mibu Shunji Kotani Rantaro Mine Michihiro KinoshitaRickshaw man Yasushi Amaeda Makoto AsaiRickshaw man Hiroyuki Sugaya Sozaburo Yoshimi Kozo Kotani Etsuko IchiharaNarrator Mikio Narita Kei Satō Trailers 序の舞（予告編）