Phoenix (1956)

Following the unexpected death of her father, stage actress Emi Ikushima has to navigate the pitfalls of her rising fame and her increasingly complicated love life.

Cast (31)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Yumeji Tsukioka

Emi Ikushima

Tatsuya Nakadai

Keiichi Naganuma

Shin Date

Yumi Tajima

Sanae Nakahara

Kazuko Makita

Hisano Yamaoka

Emi's older sister

Kenjiro Uemura

Koji Shioda

F

Fumio Ōmachi

Katsuyuki Sarumaru

Toshiyuki Ichimura

Shiro Kusakabe

Masao Oda

Tsutomu Asuka

H

Hatsuko Wakahara

Eiko Otori

Emiko Azuma

Yoshiko Yamagiwa

K

Kenji Kawai

Ryohei Toki

Y

Yo Shiomi

Master

K

Kikuko Hasegawa

Master's daughter

Keiko Shima

Shima Miyuki

Zenji Yamada

Hisaichi-san

T

Takashi Koshiba

Sugai

K

Keishichi Nakahara

Production committee member

Kyōko Akemi

Satoko

Tatsuya Mihashi

Yasushi Sugiyama

Mie Kitahara

Actress Kitahara

Nobuo Kaneko

Fuji director

Tōru Abe

Producer Haruyama

Shirō Ōsaka

Toku-san

R

Ranko Akagi

U

Uzumi Ashikawa

Hiroyuki Nagato

Masumi Okada

Ryōji Hayama

Frankie Sakai

Rentaro Mikuni

Film actor (uncredited)

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