# Akitsu Springs

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{{short description|1962 film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Akitsu Springs
| image          = Akitsu Springs.jpg
 
| caption        = Original Japanese poster
| director       = [Yoshishige Yoshida](/source/Yoshishige_Yoshida)
| producer       = Masao Shirai 
| writer         = {{ubl|Yoshishige Yoshida (screenplay)|Shinji Fujiwara (novel)}}
| starring       = {{ubl|[Mariko Okada](/source/Mariko_Okada)|[Hiroyuki Nagato](/source/Hiroyuki_Nagato)}}
| music          = [Hikaru Hayashi](/source/Hikaru_Hayashi)
| cinematography = Toichiro Narushima
| editing        = Yoshi Sugihara 
| studio         = [Shochiku](/source/Shochiku)
| distributor    = Shochiku
| released       = {{Film date|1962|6|15|Japan}}<ref name="jmdb" /><ref name="kinenote" />
| runtime        = 112 minutes<ref name="jmdb" /><ref name="kinenote" />
| country        = Japan
| language       = Japanese
}}

{{nihongo|'''''Akitsu Springs'''''|秋津温泉 |Akitsu onsen|lead=yes}} is a 1962 Japanese [drama film](/source/drama_film) directed by [Yoshishige Yoshida](/source/Yoshishige_Yoshida), starring [Mariko Okada](/source/Mariko_Okada) and [Hiroyuki Nagato](/source/Hiroyuki_Nagato).<ref name="jmdb">{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1962/cl001980.htm |title=秋津温泉 (Akitsu Springs) |website=Japanese Movie Database |language=ja |access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref><ref name="kinenote">{{cite web|url=http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=20744 |title=秋津温泉 (Akitsu Springs) |website=Kinenote |language=ja |access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref>

==Plot==
Shortly before the end of [World War II](/source/World_War_II), young soldier Shusaku, ill with [tuberculosis](/source/tuberculosis), arrives at Akitsu, expecting to die soon. Shinko, daughter of a widow and innkeeper, helps him to recover and invigorates his will to live. They fall in love, and although she is first willing to follow him when he suggests to commit [suicide](/source/shinj%C5%AB) together, they eventually let go of their plan. Shinko muses to marry Shusaku, but her mother intervenes and sends him away. Over a span of 17 years, Shusaku, now married and a father, continues to meet with Shinko, but also has affairs with other women. During their last encounters, she declares that she is now ready to die with him, but Shusaku is reluctant. When he leaves Akitsu again after a visit, Shinko, who has sold her inn and is tired of living, commits suicide alone, later found by the grieving Shusaku.

==Cast==
*[Mariko Okada](/source/Mariko_Okada) as Shinko
*[Hiroyuki Nagato](/source/Hiroyuki_Nagato) as Shusaku Kawamoto
*[Jūkichi Uno](/source/J%C5%ABkichi_Uno) as Kenkichi Matsumiya
*[Eijirō Tōno](/source/Eijir%C5%8D_T%C5%8Dno) as Priest
*[Kei Taguchi](/source/Kei_Taguchi)
*[Asao Koike](/source/Asao_Koike) as Osaki
*[Akira Nagoya](/source/Akira_Nagoya) as Shimamura
*[Sō Yamamura](/source/S%C5%8D_Yamamura) as Mikami
*[Taiji Tonoyama](/source/Taiji_Tonoyama) as Rokusuke

==Production==
''Akitsu Springs'' was Mariko Okada's 100th film<ref name="kotobank">{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%A7%8B%E6%B4%A5%E6%B8%A9%E6%B3%89-691685 |title=秋津温泉 (Akitsu Springs) |website=Kotobank |language=ja |access-date=9 June 2021}}</ref> and the first under the direction of her future husband Yoshida.<ref name="Jacoby">{{cite book|last=Jacoby |first=Alexander |date=2008 |title=Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day |location=Berkeley |publisher=Stone Bridge Press |page=363 |isbn=978-1-933330-53-2}}</ref>

==Awards==
* 1962 [Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actress](/source/Kinema_Junpo_Award_for_Best_Actress) for Mariko Okada<ref name="imdb awards">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055732/awards |title=Akitsu onsen: Awards |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref>
* 1962 [Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress](/source/Mainichi_Film_Award_for_Best_Actress) for Mariko Okada<ref name="mainichi-1962">{{cite web|url=http://www.japan-movie.net/about/history17.html |script-title=ja:切腹 第17回(1962年度)毎日映画コンクール（日本映画大賞）受賞 |publisher=[Mainichi Film Award](/source/Mainichi_Film_Award)s |language=Japanese |access-date=30 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011060919/http://www.japan-movie.net/about/history17.html |archive-date=11 October 2008 }}</ref>

==Home media==
''Akitsu Springs'' was released on DVD in France in 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Oeuvres-completes-de-Kiju-Yoshida-Partie-1-Une-nouvelle-vague-DVD/138245/ |title=Oeuvres complètes de Kiju Yoshida - Partie 1 - Une nouvelle vague |website=Bluray.com |access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref> and in Japan in 2013<ref name="shochiku2">{{cite web|url=https://www.shochiku-home-enta.com/c/japanese/DA5576 |title=吉田喜重DVD-BOX第1集 (Yoshishige Yoshida DVD-Box Vol. 1) |website=Shochiku Home Entertainment |language=ja |access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref> as part of DVD boxes with collected works by Yoshida.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0055732}}

{{Yoshishige Yoshida}}

Category:1962 films
Category:1962 drama films
Category:Japanese drama films
Category:Films based on Japanese novels
Category:Films directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
Category:1962 Japanese films
Category:Films scored by Hikaru Hayashi

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