
1959 · Hiroshi Inagaki · 111 min
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Toshirō MifuneHeihachiro Komaki
Yōko TsukasaLady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
Akira TakaradaJutaro [Jurota] Karibe
Keiko AwajiNanae
Seizaburō KawazuNagashima
Kamatari FujiwaraRakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)
Akihiko HirataAkaboshi
Eiko MiyoshiOkuni
Sachio Sakai(uncredited)
Yoshibumi Tajima(uncredited)Akira Tani(uncredited)
Yutaka Sada(uncredited)
Senkichi Ōmura(uncredited)
Hideyo Amamoto(uncredited)
Haruo Tanaka(uncredited)