
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.
Beauty and the Thief was directed by Keigo Kimura.
Beauty and the Thief runs for 1h 20min, and was released in 1952.
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