Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji (2001)

Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him.

Cast (32)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Murasaki Shikibu

Yuki Amami

Hikaru Genji

Toru Kazama

Morio Kazama

Kyôko Kishida

Naoto Takenaka

Seiko Matsuda

Takako Tokiwa

Ken Watanabe

Reiko Takashima

Rino Katase

Mitsuko Mori

Yoko Minamino

Fumie Hosokawa

Shinobu Nakayama

Keiko Takeshita

Tsurutaro Kataoka

Shigeru Kōyama

Takeshi Katō

Aki Maeda

Takami Mizuhashi

Kazuyo Asari

Junkichi Orimoto

Taro Yamamoto

Hirotaro Honda

Yasunori Danta

T

Tadahiko Hirano

Machiko Washio

Taeko Hattori

I

Ichiro Shinjitsu

Satoshi Hashimoto

Hiroyuki Kinoshita

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