Song for a Bride

Song for a Bride (花嫁三重奏, Hanayome sanjuso) is a 1958 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda.

Song for a Bride
Director Ishirō Honda attending to details on Reiko Dan's fashion show costume during production.
Directed by	Ishirō Honda
Written by	Tokuhei Wakao
Produced by	Toho Sanezumi Fujimoto
Cinematography	Hajime Koizumi
Music by	Masaru Sato
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	February 11, 1958 (1958-02-11)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

• Mitsuko Kusabue
• Akemi Negishi
• Reiko Dan
• Kenji Sahara
• Hiroshi Koizumi
• Yoshio Tsuchiya
• Sachio Sakai as Kurokawa
• Fumiko Okamura
• Daijirō Natsukawa
• Toshiko Nakano
• Yutaka Nakayama
• Keiko Muramatsu
• Akiko Wakabayashi
• Daisuke Inoue
• Kingoro Yanagiya

Release

Song for a Bride was released on February 11, 1958.

Reception

In a retrospective review, Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski declared the film "one of Honda's most thoroughly entertaining film" that "showcases Honda's flair for comedy in ways similar to Mothra and King Kong vs. Godzilla" had."

Bibliography

• Ryfle, Steve; Godziszewski, Ed (2017). Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 9780819570871.

External links

• (in Japanese) http://www.ishirohonda.com/works/195802-sanju/195802-sanju.shtml
• Song for a Bride at IMDb