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Love Makeup (also known as Lovetide) is a 1955 Toho film,Directed by Ishirō Honda.

## Plot

Geisha's first child liked her childhood friend, Rikiya, but she couldn't forget her missing Sonoko since the war. The car of Rikiya's company was stolen. Rikiya had an idea that he was the criminal of the car mud offering that ran over his younger brother, Kosuke, the night before. Rikiya who entered the bar after a car thief found Sonoko. Sonoko was living with the man, Ishijima, without knowing that he was a thief. Sonoko stood between Ishijima, who helped each other, and longing for Rikiya, and suffered. One night Rikiya was hit by a car thief. Hatsuko taught Rikiya the address of Sonoko that she happened to know. In the Sonoko's apartment, Rikiya met Ishijima, but was surprised and missed. Sonoko knew Ishishima for the first time, but decided to rehabilitate him. Ishijima was also sung by Sonoko's true feelings, but ended up being pulled back in by car broker Hoshino. Kosuke and Hanatama Hinagiku, who loved him, saw Hoshino and Ishijima as they entered the automobile factory, and made a sudden report to Rikiya. Rikiya urged Ishijima to go back to Sonoko's permission, but Hoshino was accused of shooting a handgun. At that moment, suddenly, the police rushed and caught a gang of car thieves. Sonoko went to his hometown to wait for Ishijima. Rikiya gave up Sonoko and began to think of having a first child and a household to think of himself.

## Cast

* Rikiya Otsu: Ryo Ikebe
* First child: Fukiyuki Koshiji
* Sonoko: Mariko Okada
* Ishijima: Hiroshi Koizumi
* Hinagiku: Kyoko Aoyama
* Kosuke: Daisuke Inoue
* Madam: Chieko Nakakita
* Sano: Fujiwara Kamaashi
* Yoshinosato: Nobuo Chiba
* Hoshino: Yoshio Kosugi
* Detective Yamaguchi: Seijiro Onda
* Youth President: Hideo Saeki
* Rokuzo: Akira Tani
* Yashiro: Chikichi Omura
* Factory owner : All left

## Staff

* Production: Tomoyuki Tanaka
* Original: Today's Sea "Blow Up River Wind"
* Screenplay: Nishijima University
* Music: Yoshio Niki and others
* Photography: Tadashi Iimura
* Art: Tatsuo Kita
* Recording: Ariaki Hosaka
* Lighting: Midori Ishikawa
* Editing: Hiraichi
* Chief Assistant Director: Koji Kajita
* Director: Ishirō Honda

## Titles

* Lovetide (Worldwide release title)
* Love Makeup (Original Japanese release title)

## Production

*Love Make-up* was director Ishirō Honda's follow-up to his film Godzilla and was his first film specifically made for female audiences. The film was made with the studio promoting it as "a gorgeous love melodrama with Toho's best cast, meant for all the women-fans."

The film is based on the story Fukeyo kawakaze by Hidemi Kon. The films story and cast (specifically Mariko Okada and Chieko Nakakita, the wife of producer Tomoyuki Tanaka) have been described Honda authors Steve Rylfe and Ed Godziszewski as being similar to the film Floating Clouds that was directed by Mikio Naruse and released a few weeks after Lovetide. Tanaka had mentioned that if he had not steered Honda towards predominantly making science fiction films, Honda would have become "a director like Mikio Naruse."

## Overview

Today, Nishijima Univ. from "Fukiyo Kawafuu", the original story by Izumi, wrote "The Dying to Never Die", and Inoshiro Honda from "Godzilla (1954)" is the director. Photographed by Tadashi Iimura of "Saturday's Angel". Performers include Ryo Ikebe of "I will not pay for your death", Mariko Okada and Hiroshi Koizumi during "wedding season", Fubuki Koshiji of "Love Super Express", Kyoko Aoyama of "Shiosai (1954)", Daisuke Inoue, Fujiwara Kamaashi, Yoshio Kosugi, Chieko Nakakita, etc.