Wuthering Heights (1988 film)
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Wuthering Heights is a 1988 Japanese drama film
directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
, based on the novel by Emily Brontë
. It was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
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Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
Yoshishige Yoshida
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Career:Graduating from Tokyo University, Yoshida entered the Shōchiku studio in 1955 and debuted as a director in 1960 with Rokudenashi...
, based on the novel by Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother...
. It was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
1988 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*Ettore Scola*Claude Berri*David Robinson*Yelena Safonova*George Miller*Hector Olivera*Nastassja Kinski*Philippe Sarde*Robby Muller*William Goldman-Feature film competition:* A World Apart by Chris Menges...
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Cast
- Yusaku MatsudaYusaku Matsudawas a Japanese actor. Yusaku was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi to a Zainichi Korean mother. His father is not known. His date was wrongly recorded as 1950 on his birth records due to a parental error in filing a report.-Career:...
- Onimaru - Yûko Tanaka - Kinu
- Rentaro Mikuni - Takamaru
- Tatsuo Nadaka - Mitsuhiko
- Eri Ishida - Tae
- Nagare Hagiwara - Hidemaru
- Keïko Ito - Shino
- Masato FuruoyaMasato Furuoyawas a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival and at the 5th Hochi Film Award for Disciples of Hippocrates and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for Uchū no hōsoku. He committed suicide on March 25, 2003 by hanging himself...
- Yoshimaru - Tomoko Takabe - Kinu, daughter
- Masao Imafuku - Ichi
- Taro ShigakiTaro Shigakiis a Japanese actor and voice actor.-Voice roles:* André Grandier in The Rose of Versailles* Franz, Fritz in Nutcracker Fantasy* Saki Vashtal in Area 88 * Soldier Blue in Toward the Terra * Siegfried in Swan Lake...