• Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Social Problem Film, Media Satire
• Themes: Members of the Press, Work Ethics
• Director: Akira Kurosawa
• Main Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Takashi Shimura
• Release Year: 1950
• Country: JP
• Run Time: 104 minutes

Plot

Released in Japan as Shubun, Scandal was the eleventh film directed by Akira Kurosawa (it was produced just prior to his more famous Rashomon). The director described it as a "protest" film about press journalism. The film sets forth the theory that the postwar Japanese press was too free in its insinuations, and that personal privacy had been sacrificed for the sake of sensationalism (The more things change...) Based on a story related to Kurosawa at a bar (!), the film traces the tragedy that results when a prominent lawyer is skewered by the press. Scandal ends with the hospital death of the lawyer's daughter--which didn't happen in the real-life anecdote. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Yoshiko Yamaguchi - Miyako Saigo
• Takashi Shimura - Hiruta

Bokuzen Hidari - Drunk
Yoko Katsuragi - Hiruta's daughter, Masako
Kuninori Kodo - Farmer
Toshiro Mifune - Ichiro Aoye
Eitaro Ozawa - Hori
Noriko Sengoku - Sumie, Aoye's model

Credit

Tatsuo Hamada - Art Director; Akira Kurosawa - Director; Akira Kurosawa - Screenwriter; Fumio Hayasaka - Composer (Music Score); Ryuzo Kikushima - Screenwriter; Takashi Koide - Producer; Toshio Ubukata - Cinematographer

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