The Heart (1973 film)
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Directed byKaneto Shindō
Written by
- Kaneto Shindō (screenplay)
- Natsume Sōseki (novel)
Produced by
- Kaneto Shindō
- Kinshirō Kuzui
Starring
- Noboru Matsuhashi
- Kazunaga Tsuji
- Nobuko Otowa
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| 心 | |
| Directed by | Kaneto Shindō |
| Written by |
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| Produced by |
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| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Kiyomi Kuroda |
| Edited by | Mitsuo Kondo |
| Music by | Hikaru Hayashi |
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| Distributed by | Art Theatre Guild |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The Heart (Japanese: 心, Hepburn: Kokoro), also titled Love Betrayed, is a 1973 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō. It is based on the 1914 novel Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki.[1][2][3]
- Noboru Matsuhashi as K
- Kazunaga Tsuji as S
- Nobuko Otowa as Mrs. M.
- Anri as I-ko
- Taiji Tonoyama as Father of S
- Yasuo Arakawa as Boy
- Sotomi Kotake as Girl
Literary source
Sōseki's novel has been adapted for film and television numerous times, the first time for cinema by Kon Ichikawa in 1955 as The Heart. For his version, writer/director Shindō moved the story's Meiji era setting to the 1970s[4] and put his focus only on the novel's third and final part, "Sensei to isho" ("Sensei's testament").[5]
