The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

Watch TrailerWatch Movie
2018
3h 9m
6.2(9 votes)
Drama
History

Overview

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.

Links & Resources

WebsiteIMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Kokuei Company

Videos & Trailers

1 video

Cast & Crew

40 members
Acting

木竜麻生

Tomoyo Hanakiku

木竜麻生
Acting

韓英恵

Tamae Tokachigawa

韓英恵
Acting

東出昌大

Tetsu Nakahama

東出昌大
Acting

寛一郎

Daijiro Furuta

寛一郎
Acting

嘉門洋子

Mitsu Tamatsubaki

嘉門洋子
Acting

Maki Maehara

Tsune Umenosato

No Image
Acting

西田あい

Maki Wakanishiki

西田あい
Acting

Yuki Tashiro

Matsu Hagurosakura

No Image
Acting

Kanako Mochida

Yoshi Kotenryu

Kanako Mochida
Acting

Miho Harita

Ushi Yonaguni

Miho Harita
Acting

山田真歩

Haru Kozakura

山田真歩
Acting

大西礼芳

Katsu Katsutora

大西礼芳
Acting

和田光沙

Kiyo Hideriyama

和田光沙
Acting

Jun Seno

Sen Mogamigawa

No Image
Acting

Kaho Harada

2 generation Kozakura

No Image
Acting

嶺豪一

Sanji

嶺豪一
Acting

渋川清彦

Tamasaburo Iwaki

渋川清彦
Acting

池田良

Kozo Kawai

池田良
Acting

Tomokoi Kimura

Maichi Naka

No Image
Acting

飯田芳

Yoshio Ogawa

飯田芳
Acting

小林竜樹

Yunoshin Tanaka

小林竜樹
Acting

Taiga Komizu

Jiro Konishi

No Image
Acting

伊島空

Gentaro Uchida

伊島空
Acting

Ryunosuke Azuma

Eikichi Shigeno

Ryunosuke Azuma
Acting

Toshimitsu Kokido

Sakae Osugi

No Image
Acting

山中崇

Kyutaro Wada

山中崇
Acting

井浦新

Genjiro Muraki

井浦新
Acting

大西信満

Daigoro Iioka

大西信満
Acting

Sankichi Kawamoto

Sakichi

No Image
Acting

Haruki Takano

Kichiji

Haruki Takano
Acting

嶋田久作

Hanbee Tanaka

嶋田久作
Directing

渡辺謙作

Mizushima

渡辺謙作
Acting

宇野祥平

Kazuo Morimoto

宇野祥平
Acting

鈴木卓爾

Sakanauri no Otoya

鈴木卓爾
Directing

大森立嗣

Matsutaro Shoriki

大森立嗣
Acting

篠原篤

Sadao

篠原篤
Acting

菅田俊

Maruman, Police Chief

菅田俊
Acting

川瀬陽太

Kantaro Sakata, the Sponsor

川瀬陽太
Acting

Zenki Aramaki

Keiji Kurachi

Zenki Aramaki
Acting

永瀬正敏

Narrator

永瀬正敏

Similar Movies

Anarchist from Colony
7.4
2017

Anarchist from Colony

Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol, the film shows his struggle to counter the massacre of Koreans by the government during the 1923 great Kanto earthquake, focusing on his activities as the leader of the anti-Japanese organization Bulryeongsa and his relationship with Japanese comrade Fumiko Kaneko.

Movie
Salvador (Puig Antich)
6.8
2006

Salvador (Puig Antich)

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.

Movie
Memoirs of a Geisha
7.7
2005

Memoirs of a Geisha

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Movie
My Happy Marriage
7.2
2023

My Happy Marriage

An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander. But the two learn more about each other, love may have a chance.

Movie
Children of Paradise
8.1
1945

Children of Paradise

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.

Movie
The Nada Gang
6.0
1974

The Nada Gang

Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.

Movie
Nineteen Eighty-Four
6.8
1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. It's the year 1984 and such a world exists. Divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments, an illegal love affair begins. Soon, worker drone Winston becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him back to conformity.

Movie
El kapo
2023

El kapo

For decades, the name of the Valencian anarchist César Orquín Serra responded to that of one of the 7,251 Spanish republicans deported to the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen-Gusen between 1940 and 1945, although the controversy surrounding his role as Chief of Kommando pursued him with the survivors, divided between those who highlighted his actions to help the survival of his men and those who accused him of collaborating with the SS.

Movie
On This Earth
1957

On This Earth

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.

Movie
November
7.0
2003

November

Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives to Madrid with the intention to create "a performance that is free, straight from the heart, capable of making people feel alive". His concept of what acting should be begins beyond the stage, out in the streets face to face with the public. Outdoors, in any town square, in a park or in the city's most commercial street, Alfredo and his troupe November start the show; demons to provoke passers-by, displays of social conscience, actions taken to the extreme to put the forces of law and order on full alert. There are no limits, no censorship; only ideas which are always valid so long as the public ceases to be the public and becomes part of the show swept by surprise, fear, tears or laughter. Theater as life, life as theater… there is no longer any difference.

Movie
The Strategy of the Snail
7.4
1993

The Strategy of the Snail

A group of tenants facing eviction due to a city renovation unite to fight back, but as they clash with the landlord and his ruthless attorney, they each transform into the opposite of who they once were.

Movie
Slacker
6.7
1991

Slacker

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.

Movie
Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist
6.5
1973

Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to start his own revolution, but tries to stay away from the organized class struggle. He steals from the rich men and divides the wealth among the poor. One day, Wolz is arrested and sentenced to life in prison; seven years later he is released due to mass protests. More than ever, it is hard for him to fit in. He severs ties with his former companions, who reject his ideas, and leaves Germany.

Movie
The Wave
7.5
2008

The Wave

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

Movie
The Lights of Asakusa
5.6
1937

The Lights of Asakusa

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.

Movie
Cosmopolis
5.7
2012

Cosmopolis

Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.

Movie
The King
1962

The King

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.

Movie
The Scent of Incense
7.2
1964

The Scent of Incense

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.

Movie
Summer Days with Coo
7.8
2007

Summer Days with Coo

A small, lone Kappa miraculously survives over 200 years into modern day Japan, when he is found by young Koichi. Coo, who is secretly adopted by Koichi's family, searches with his new human friend for unpopulated places in hopes of finding any remaining of his kind.

Movie
Father of the Milky Way Railroad
6.0
2023

Father of the Milky Way Railroad

Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and becomes obsessed with farming, jewelry and religion.

Movie

Recommended Movies

Chained for Life
3.7
1952

Chained for Life

A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?

Movie
The Way to the Heart
9.9
2024

The Way to the Heart

Ava, an award-winning chef at a big-city restaurant, has lost her spark. Her boss sends her out to find herself to save her menu and her job. She returns home and finds little to inspire her, but when she reunites with her childhood friend Logan, Ava has to get her head out of the clouds and her foot out of her mouth to rediscover her passion for food.

Movie
Nude
9.4
2017

Nude

NUDE explores perceptions of nudity in art by chronicling the creative process of photographer David Bellemere as he's commissioned by NU Muses founder Steve Shaw to shoot a fine art calendar of nude photographs.

Movie
Narco Sub
6.7
2021

Narco Sub

A former U.S. Navy Seal is forced to become the international criminal he once fought against when a powerful and violent drug cartel kidnaps his wife and daughter.

Movie
Bad
6.3
1977

Bad

Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work after he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a hit, since she prefers using women, but decides to try him on a trial basis. Meanwhile, the cop she pays off wants an arrest to make it look like he's doing his job, but Hazel doesn't want to sacrifice any of her "associates". The sleazy side of life is explored in this delightfully dark and deadpan film.

Movie
The Little Guy
7.3
2022

The Little Guy

Groot discovers a miniature civilization that believes the seemingly enormous tree toddler is the hero they’ve been waiting for.

Movie
The Symphony of Haruhi Suzumiya
8.8
2009

The Symphony of Haruhi Suzumiya

The Symphony of Haruhi Suzumiya or The String Performance of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの弦奏 Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensou), was an event featuring several songs and background music used in the The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime. All of the songs are performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducted by Phillip Chu, on April 29, 2009.

Movie
Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - Poltergeist Report
7.6
1994

Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - Poltergeist Report

When the Spirit World is flooded due to an unusual rainfall which overflows the River Sanzu (aka the River Styx), Lord Koenma senses an extremely powerful enemy. He entrusts Death God Botan, to deliver to Spirit Detective Yusuke, a mysterious item which must be protected from the invading enemy. However, by the time Botan finds Yusuke, she's too weak to explain the situation. Yusuke and his friends are left in the dark about the new enemy, but not for long. Soon it is a battle for Earth between mere Spirit Detectives and the almighty king of the Netherworld.

Movie
Sonic 30th Anniversary Symphony
7.1
2021

Sonic 30th Anniversary Symphony

30 years ago, on June 23rd, 1991, Sonic the Hedgehog was released on the SEGA Genesis, beginning a new era of gaming. Since then, Sonic has been running through countless zones, beating badniks, and saving the world with the help of his friends. This performance is to thank you, all of you, for being there every step of the way, and to remind us all of the amazing journey we've been on. Happy 30th Anniversary, Sonic!

Movie
Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №5. Second Bride Emperor
6.2
2003

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №5. Second Bride Emperor

As a result of a successful conspiracy against Menshikov, Peter II is prematurely recognized as an adult and is in a hurry to be crowned in Moscow. The Dolgoruky brothers gather for this celebration. There were eight of them - all-powerful and influential representatives of the ancient Rurikovich family - and among them the beautiful Ekaterina, the daughter of the huntsman Alexei.

Movie
The Crocodiles Strike Back
6.9
2010

The Crocodiles Strike Back

New summer adventure of the Crocodiles, who set up their detective skills to find out who is behind the accidents of the factory where Ollie and Mary's parents work , which could mean the closure of the plant, the move of the family and the dissolution of the gang.

Movie
Black as Night
5.5
2021

Black as Night

A teenage girl with self-esteem issues finds confidence in the most unlikely way, by spending her summer battling vampires that prey on New Orleans' disenfranchised with the help of her best friend, the boy she's always pined for, and a peculiar rich girl.

Movie
Baby's Meal
5.5
1895

Baby's Meal

A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding Baby her lunch, while Mum is serving tea.

Movie
Las Leyendas: El Origen
8.3
2021

Las Leyendas: El Origen

When a human baby crosses the Eternal Mirror, the portal between the living and the dead opens its path to the beings from the underworld.

Movie
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.
8.3
2008

Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.

In a series of interviews with the KND after they're all grown up, the former operatives are temporarily brought out of their decommissioned haze to discuss what happened during their very last mission with Numbuh one - where he disappeared and was never heard from again! It all started with a routine mission to get the Delightful Children's birthday cake, but when a mysterious boy steals it instead, he makes it available to whoever wants it, IF they can solve his 'simple' scavenger hunt first. Soon it's a mad, mad, mad, mad chase around the world as the KND, their friends, and virtually all of their enemies compete to win the yummiest cake ever

Movie
Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween
6.4
2022

Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween

Shibuya, Tokyo, is bustling with the Halloween season. A wedding is being held at Shibuya Hikarie, where Detective Miwako Sato of the Metropolitan Police Department is dressed in a wedding dress. While Conan and the other invited guests are watching, an assailant suddenly bursts in, and Detective Wataru Takagi, who was trying to protect Sato, is injured. Takagi survived and the situation was settled, but in Sato's eyes, the image of the grim reaper that she had seen when Detective Matsuda, the man she had been in love with, had been killed in a series of bombings three years ago, overlapped with Takagi's.

Movie
South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID
7.4
2021

South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID

If Stan, Kyle and Cartman could just work together, they could go back in time to make sure Covid never happened. But traveling back to the past seems to be the easy answer until they meet Victor Chaos.

Movie
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2
7.8
2012

Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2

After the death of his father and brother Danish, Faizal Khan vows to take revenge by destroying Ramadhir Singh's gang.

Movie
Palkó Csinom
7.2
1973

Palkó Csinom

The musical adventure film goes back to the early eighteenth century, the times of the battles between the Hungarian insurrectionists and the pro-Austrians. Palkó and Jankó are about to join the insurrectionist army when they clash with a pro-Austrian troop. Jankó is captured and put in Count Koháry's prison.

Movie
Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target
7.2
1998

Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target

Ran’s secret past revealed! Ten years ago, something happened between her mom and dad. Now, plagued by nightmares, Ran is starting to remember… Meanwhile, a murderous card dealer breaks out of jail to seek revenge. His target: Ran’s father. Can Conan stop him in time and save his girlfriend’s family?

Movie