No Rules in 'Fair Play'
Rules are nowhere to be seen in the harsh unfiltered reality of ‘Fair Play.’
Poppy (1981)
Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.
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Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.
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Genre:Drama, Romance
Written By:Daisuke Itō, Haruo Takayanagi
In Theaters:1/1/1981
Box Office:
Runtime:72 minutes
Studio:Daiichi Eiga
Cast
Kenji Mizoguchi
Director
Yukichi Iwata
Tomotaka Inoue
Kasuke Koizumi
Land owner
Kuniko Miyake
Fujio Kono
Daijiro Natsukawa
Hajime Munechika
Tōichirō Negishi
Asai
Ayako Nijo
Itoko
Kazuyoshi Takeda
Kingo Kono
Mitsugu Terashima
Munechika's father
Ichirō Tsukida
Seizo Ono
Yōko Umemura
Fujio's mother
Chiyoko Ôkura
Sayako Inoue
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