Director
Masahiro Shinoda
Composer
Cong Su
Cast
Hiromi Gô, Lisa Wolf, Brigitte Grothum
Edition 1990
123'
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1989
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Drama
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Dialogue:
German, Japanese
In 1885, young Toyotaro Oota, a medical student who dreams of joining the Western elite, is sent to study in Germany. At the Japanese embassy In Benin, he meets the new military attache, Wasaburo Fukushlma, who intends to make his power felt, even controlling the private lives of the Japanese students there. Discovering Elis, sunk in despair by the river because of her father's death and the imminent state of poverty, he comforts her and gives her his pocket watch to pawn. As their relationship develops, Toyotaro drops his official status and remains In Berlin as a private citizen...
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Credits
Directors
Masahiro Shinoda
Composers
Cong Su
Cast
Hiromi Gô, Lisa Wolf, Brigitte Grothum
Scenario
Masahiro Shinoda, Hans Borgelt, Ogai Mori
Director of Photography
Jürgen Jürges, Kazuo Miyagawa
Editors
Barbara Hiltmann
More info
Dialogue
German, Japanese
Countries of production
Japan, West Germany
Screenplay based on
Naar Ogai Mori
Year
1989