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The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, "Tsusensan", some forty years before the better-known innovations of his American counterparts Long, Wells and Morton.
Cast and crew
- Director
- Yasuzô Masumura
- Writer
- Sawako Ariyoshi, Kaneto Shindô
- Starring
- Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hideko Takamine
Details
- Release date
- Oct 1, 1970
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Awards
- 1 win
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