Poppy (1935)

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Country: Japan
Genres: Drama
Release:
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Writers: Daisuke Itō , Natsume Sōseki , Haruo Takayanagi
Language: Japanese
Stars: Daijirō Natsukawa , Ichirō Tsukida , Chiyoko Ôkura , Kuniko Miyake , Yōko Umemura , Kazuyoshi Takeda , Yukichi Iwata , Ayako Nijo , Mitsugu Terajima , Tôichirô Negishi
Runtime: 72 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Mohnblumen (Germany) , Les coquelicots (France, French Republic) , Gubijinsô , Poppy , Gubijinsô (Japan) , Poppy (United Kingdom) , Las amapolas (Spain) , The Field Poppy (United Kingdom) , Poppy (United States of America) , Papoula (Brazil)
Plot: Based on Soseki Natsume's 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. But she falls in love with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono is himself bound by an engagement to Sayoko, the daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue. The self-centered Fujio is ready to forsake everything for Ono, but he is prevailed upon to go ahead with his marriage to Sayoko. Fujio then offers the watch to Munechika who, perceiving Fujio's true feelings, hurls the watch into the sea.
IMDB:tt0026444