Cape of North

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Cape of the North
Film poster
Directed byKei Kumai
Written by
Produced by
  • Masayuki Sato
  • Hideyuki Shiino
Starring
Narrated byKaneko Iwasaki
CinematographyMitsuji Kanau
Edited byKeiichi Uraoka
Music byTeizo Matsumura
Production
company
Release date
  • April 3, 1976 (1976-04-03) (Japan)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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

  1. "北の岬". Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  2. "北の岬とは". kotobank. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  3. "Baisers envolés", 2004, p. 336.
  4. "Kita no misaki". 19 February 2014. Archived from the original on 12 April 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2018.