Night Drum
1958 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman's husband blames himself for his wife's straying and attempts to thwart the law demanding capital punishment.
Direction Tadashi Imai
Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Ineko Arima · Masayuki Mori · Emiko Azuma · Sumiko Hidaka · Nobuo Kaneko · Yoshi Kato · Kikue Môri · Kichiemon Nakamura · Tomoko Naraoka · Shizue Natsukawa · Ichiro Sugai · Taiji Tonoyama · Eijirô Tono · Eijirô Yanagi
Soundtrack Akira Ifukube
Screenplay Shinobu Hashimoto · Kaneto Shindô · Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Cinematography Shunichiro Nakao
Original title Yoru no tsuzumi
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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