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Cruel Bondage Picture Legend

Cruel Bondage Picture Legend

1976•1h 4m•2.0/10
Drama

Ratings

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2.0/10(1)

It was a tumultuous time. In the early Meiji period, there was the first photographer in Japan who lived a heroic life. What fascinated him with photography was a photograph of a naked woman.

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Production

Shintoho Pictures

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Naomi Tani

Naomi Tani

Okichi Tôjin

John Basclin

Townsend Harris

Masayoshi Nogami

Masayoshi Nogami

Ryûnosuke Murakami

Yuki Minami

Hama Kamioka

Hiroshi Imaizumi

Ren'eda Kamioka

Yasushi Matsuura

Police officer

Katsurō Sakai

Katsurō Sakai

Maeda

Yūichi Minato

Yūichi Minato

General

Jun Fukami

Woman in Western-style building

Rie Nakano

Woman in Chubuya

Kiyomi Yasuda

Prostitute

Jirō Sagawa

Owner

Kira Dora

Police

Tatsuo Fukano

Soldier

Akira Sakamoto

Topknot

Kaoru Ogata

Chinese woman

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