Beauty and the Thief

Adventure, Drama, History

🏆 Fan Favorite

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Keigo Kimura

Status Released

Release Date 1952-09-22

Storyline

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.