Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts is a 1935 Japanese drama film written and directed by Mikio Naruse. Based on the short story Sisters of Asakusa by Yasunari Kawabata, it was the director's first sound film.
Plot
O-Ren, O-Some and Chieko are the daughters of a hardened, middle-aged woman who runs a business of shamisen players, earning their money on their nightly rounds in bars in Asakusa. While O-Some still works in her mother's business, Chieko, her younger sister, is a nightclub dancer. O-Ren, the eldest, tries to settle for a domestic life with her boyfriend Kosugi in an attempt to escape the half-world she has been associated with. In need of money, O-Ren lures Aoyama into an apartment, where her gangster friends threaten him. O-Some, who witnesses the crime, is hurt with a knife when she interferes to help Aoyama. Although she knows of O-Ren's scheme, O-Some bids her sister and Kosugi good-bye at the train station. Left alone in pain in the waiting room, O-Some murmurs, "that turned out good".Cast
- Chikako Hosokawa as O-Ren, the eldest sister
- Masako Tsutsumi as O-Some, the middle sister
- Ryuko Umezono as Chieko, the youngest sister
- Chitose Hayashi as the mother
- Chisato Matsumoto as O-Haru
- Masako Sanjo as O-Shima
- Mariyo Matsumoto as O-Kinu
- Heihachirō Ōkawa as Aoyama, Chieko's boyfriend
- Osamu Takizawa as Kosugi, O-Ren's boyfriend