Bitter Spirit (1961)

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Country: Japan
Genres: Drama
Release:
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Writers: Keisuke Kinoshita
Language: Japanese
Stars: Hideko Takamine , Keiji Sada , Tatsuya Nakadai , Nobuko Otowa , Akira Ishihama , Yukiko Fuji , Kiyoshi Nonomura , Yoshi Katō , Yasushi Nagata , Torahiko Hamada
Runtime: 103 min
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 1 nomination total
AKA: Bitter Spirit (United Kingdom) , Un amor inmortal (Argentina) , Un amor inmortal (Spain) , Immortal Love , Amore immortale (Italy) , O Inesquecível (Brazil) , Immortal Love (United States of America) , Un amour éternel (France, French Republic) , Eine unsterbliche Liebe (Austria) , Wieczna miłość (Poland) , Eien no hito , 永遠の人 (Japan) , Любовь на всю жизнь (Russian Federation) , Eine unsterbliche Liebe (Germany)
Plot: Heibei, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns home from the war in 1937 wounded in the leg and permanently disabled. He lusts after and thinks he loves Sadako, the daughter of a tenant farmer on his family's property. Sadako is in love with and engaged to Takashi, another soldier who is still off in the war. Heibei has his father blackmail Sadako's family into an arranged marriage between himself and Sadako, and when she refuses, he rapes her. With nowhere now to go, Sadako marries Heibei, but for the next 24 years, the roots of the loveless marriage poison everyone involved.
IMDB:tt0054845