Portrait of Madame Yuki

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Portrait of Madame Yuki

Shintoho Company

Takimura Productions

Produced by

Kazuo Takimura

From the novel by

Seiichi Funabashi

Scenario:

Yoshikata Yoda

Kazuo Funabashi

Photography:

Joli Ohara

Art director:
Hiroshi Mizutani

Music:
Fumio Hayasaka

Ken Uehara

Michiyo Kogure

Yuriko Hamada

Yoshiko Kuga

Eijiro Yanagi

So Yamamura

Shizue NatsukaWa

Kumeko Urabe

Directed by

Kenji Mizoguchi

Ata mi!

Ata mi!

You must be tired from

the train.

Hamako,

this is Seitaro.

He helps us at the house.

Pleased to meet you.

I'm going ahead of you.

I accepted your offer despite

my inexperience.

Madame Yuki is very happy.

What's wrong?

I'm just worried

just thinking about

meeting her.

In fact, she's away.

The day before yesterday there

was a call from Tokyo.

Her father had an attack.

He's very old.

Hamako...

Go take a bath.

It'll make you feel better.

Seiichi, show her where it is.

Come this way.

Thank you very much.

It's beautiful.

There's nothing like it

in the country.

Take your bath.

The water's nice and hot.

Does Mme Yuki bathe here too?

Yes.

Do you like Mme Yuki?

I'd like to serve her.

She's very nice.

Finally I'm near her.

Such a thing was never

permitted formerly.

Her father was the Viscount of

Shina no, chief of our region.

Her name suggests she was

born from the snow of the

Shinano mountains.

How beautiful she is.

When I was in school,

she got married.

All women are destined to

marry.

But I was sad

when I heard she was getting

married.

That was the first time

I saw her.

O how beautiful!

O her face!

This is madame's bedroom.

It smells good.

That's her incense.

Is has the same smell.

Even deprived of her title

of nobility,

she must be happy to

live here.

You're mistaken.

She's not happy?

Her husband keeps a Woman

in Kyoto.

A cabaret singer.

He's debauched.

He doesn't come home?

Yes, from time to time.

One night or two.

Don't say I told you.

The truth is

she's in love with someone.

I was looking for you...

You have to go to Tokyo.

Her father died this morning.

Sorry, but you have to go right

away for the mourning clothes.

Where do I go?

You're not going alone.

You'll find Professor Kikunaka

at his lake-shore hotel.

I'll forewarn him.

You'll go with him to Tokyo.

He's the man I was

telling you about.

Is that you, Hamako?

I'm Kikunaka.

Let's go.

You're just coming from

Shina no.

I often went to Mme Yuki's

house with her husband.

So you knew the Yukis?

I used to work for them.

When she was a child,

I took her to school, horse

riding, tennis.

I was in her service.

I thought...

What?

That you were an actor.

Me, an actor?

This is the first time anyone

took me for an actor.

What do you do in life?

I teach koto.

My father was a virtuoso

koto player.

Contrary to my father,

I try to introduce western

music

And your wife?

I'm not married.

So in that hotel...

I'm alone.

After my courses in Tokyo,

I go to the hotel.

I don't like life in Tokyo.

Take good care of

Mme Yuki.

She's unhappy.

Go that way.

How can you dare decide

without consulting the heir?

According to the will...

I'm the heir.

And you're the mistresses

of my father-in-law.

Don't talk so loud.

Enough!

What does Yuki say about it?

It's for her to decide.

Yuki!

What's going on?

It's about...

the inheritance.

You know about it.

He was suckered in

by con-artists.

He invested in cosmetics

and hotels.

Nothing worked.

His house, his land,

everything was mortgaged

and seized.

This land, his stocks,

his property,

it all went for taxes.

What's left to him is this house,

the house in Atami,

and a few antiques.

He wants to handle the

liquidation all by himself.

Since he got here,

he's screamed at everyone.

Yuki, hurry up.

You...,

don't meddle in our

affairs.

You're the sole heir.

You must not listen to

the others.

You may go.

I ignore them all.

That's not possible.

You're plotting something.

You want me to fall.

You want to use this occasion

to break

the feudal bond that unites us.

Separate from me if you can.

Can you?

Shame on you.

Your father's just died.

You'll beg me not

to leave you.

I know you well.

My sincere condolences

for your father's decease.

Thank you.

Hamako, Madame's calling

for you.

In the pavilion.

Excuse me.

I'm Hamako.

You arrived this morning?

You must be tired.

No.

I've brought you

your clothes.

Thank you.

Have a glass.

Come on.

Obey as the Master says.

No, not this evening.

Is this what democracy is?

Everyone behaves as they like!

You do that very well.

You think so?

Where did you learn how?

When I worked at the station,

I took a massage course.

What's become of the house

I was born in?

Government offices.

Really?

You're already in bed?

Pardon, I felt tired.

Hama, put away the futons.

No, leave them as

they are.

I'm going to lie down too.

This is the new maid from the

house in Atami.

My name is Hama.

Okay. Bring me a glass

of water.

No, stop!

Stop.

This is not a day like others.

In front of the dead...

I'm your husband.

There's no reason to be

embarrassed.

Excuse me. It's your water.

Come in.

Bring it here.

Fold Madame's kimono.

Here.

Do it here.

She really has to take notice.

Otherwise it's awkward

for us.

Her husband is so

unreasonable.

To dare to do that...

in front of a young girl.

I can't understand Madame's

behavior.

She lets her husband treat her

like a pleasure girl.

There are limits to submission.

You again!

You shouldn't hide and listen.

Go away.

I've made you wait.

Good morning.

Sorry to have made you come.

What's worrying you?

What can I do?

About the inheritance...

Nothing remains to my

husband and me,

except this house.

The Shinano family is ruined.

I see.

Transform...

this house into an inn.

An inn?

You'll be the boss.

Would I be capable?

Of course.

An elegant inn.

For a distinguished clientele.

I'll come live here,

regularly,

and give you a hand.

That will distract you.

You've had lots of guests

before.

It'll be the same thing.

That would interest me.

What will my husband think?

It's so you can stand up

against him.

You have to be able to make

money, to be independent.

You're suffering.

Your marriage was a mistake.

A marriage without feeling.

I know that in that era,

one couldn't do otherwise.

The night of the wake,

What happened between

Madame and her husband?

Don't ask me that kind

of question.

I don't know anything.

You're lying.

No!

What are the professor and

Madame talking about?

I've no idea.

Strange is the love between

a man and a woman.

My husband will never accept

our divorce.

Why not insist,

if you really want it?

I'm not capable of doing that.

I know I shouldn't be like that.

Despite my feelings,

my body accepts, against me,

my husband's love.

A demon lives in the

female body.

Each time I see him,

the demon dominates me.

My husband knows it

very well.

I hate him.

Or rather,

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