Poppy
1935
72 minutes
Overview
Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. But she falls in love with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono is himself bound by an engagement to Sayoko, the daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue. The self-centered Fujio is ready to forsake everything for Ono, but he is prevailed upon to go ahead with his marriage to Sayoko. Fujio then offers the watch to Munechika who, perceiving Fujio’s true feelings, hurls the watch into the sea.
Top Cast
Yukichi Iwata
Tomotaka Inoue
Kasuke Koizumi
Land owner
Kuniko Miyake
Fujio Kono
Daijirō Natsukawa
Hajime Munechika
Tōichirō Negishi
Asai
Ayako Nijo
Itoko
Kazuyoshi Takeda
Kingo Kono
Mitsugu Terashima
Munechika's father
Ichirō Tsukida
Seizo Ono
Yōko Umemura
Fujio's mother
Chiyoko Ôkura
Sayako Inoue