The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments
3.5 / 5
Raizō Ichikawa
Umpei 'Seishu' Hanaoka
Ayako Wakao
Kae
Hideko Takamine
Otsugi, Umpei's mother
Yūnosuke Itō
Seishu's father
Saburo Date
Ryôan Shimomura
Misako Watanabe
Kuriko
Chisako Hara
Okatsu
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Chieko Naniwa
Taketoshi Naitō
Kenzō Tabu
Gen Kimura
Shōzō Nanbu
Yoichi Funaki
Tokio Oki
Kanji Uehara
Shinjiro Akatsuki
Haruko Sugimura
Yasuzō Masumura
Director
Setsuo Kobayashi
Director of Photography
Kanji Suganuma
Editor
Masaichi Nagata
Producer
Hikaru Hayashi
Original Music Composer
Kaneto Shindō
Screenplay
Hiroshi Mima
Lighting Technician
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Art Direction
Masao Ōsumi
Sound Recordist
Sawako Ariyoshi
Novel
