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Fountainhead

Fountainhead

1956•2h 9m•5.8/10
Drama

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5.8/10(8)

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

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Production

Shochiku

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Keiji Sada

Keiji Sada

Ineko Arima

Ineko Arima

Yōko Katsuragi

Yōko Katsuragi

Kuniko Osato

Toshiko Kobayashi

Toshiko Kobayashi

Ando's wife Yayoi

Shin Saburi

Shin Saburi

Shizue Natsukawa

Shizue Natsukawa

Motoko's mother

Hiroko Nakagawa

Komine's younger sister Setsuko

Kazuko Yamamoto

The Tachibanas' maid

Daisuke Katō

Daisuke Katō

Ryōhei Uchida

Ryōhei Uchida

Tatsuya Ishiguro

Tatsuya Ishiguro

Senior Managing Director Takano

Tsutomu Shimomoto

Tsutomu Shimomoto

Toshiaki Konoe

Toshiaki Konoe

Matsumoto

Toranosuke Ogawa

Toranosuke Ogawa

Dr. Onuma

Ushio Akashi

Ushio Akashi

Sue Mitobe

Ikushima's mother

Satoshi Omiya

Hirose

Koji Kiyomura

Young village man A

Kō Nishimura

Kō Nishimura

Kasuya

Fumio Watanabe

Fumio Watanabe

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