Cape of the North
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| Directed by | Kei Kumai |
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| Narrated by | Kaneko Iwasaki |
| Cinematography | Mitsuji Kanau |
| Edited by | Keiichi Uraoka |
| Music by | Teizo Matsumura |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Cape of the North (Japanese: 北の岬, Hepburn: Kita no misaki), also known as Le Cap du Nord, is a 1976 Japanese drama film directed by Kei Kumai.[1] The film, based on a novel by Kunio Tsuji,[2] deals with the relationship between rich countries and the Third World. In the center of the story, Marie-Therese (Claude Jade), a Swiss religious missionary, meets the Japanese engineer Mitsuo (Go Kato) aboard a ship connecting Marseille to Yokohama. Theirs is a story of impossible love.
When French star Claude Jade arrived to play the role of the nun Marie-Therese, she was accompanied for the second part of shooting by her husband Bernard Coste. For journalists, it was agreed that officially he was the private secretary. Claude Jade said: I had to hide the existence of my husband and that I was pregnant [...] My pregnancy also prevents me from returning to Japan for the first release of the movie! Production is estimated that this condition is incompatible with the role of a nun, especially as the press believes me single.[3]
The film has yet to see an NTSC release, nor one with an English translation.[4]
Cast
- Claude Jade as Marie-Therese
- Go Kato as Mitsuo
- Kinuyo Tanaka as Old Nun
- Tomoko Ogawa as Naoko
- Denise Péron as Sister Simone
- Françoise Guernier as Sister Andrée
- Wataru Kobayashi as Former mine worker
- Kayoko Onishi as Nun in Tokyo
- Martine Mathias as Marie-Therese's Mother
- Mini Sakuya as Nun in East Pakistan
- Kumi Soyama as Nun in Wakkanai
- Geruni Furansowazu
References
- ^ "北の岬". Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ "北の岬とは". kotobank. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ^ "Baisers envolés", 2004, p. 336.
- ^ "Kita no misaki". 19 February 2014. Archived from the original on 12 April 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2018.