
Reminiscence
1953-01-15 · 110 min · ★ 7.0
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.
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- Directors
- Kōzaburō Yoshimura
- Production companies
- Daiei Film
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
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Michiyo KogureMrs. Ota
Nobuko OtowaFumiko Ota
Masayuki MoriKikuji
Haruko SugimuraChikako
Masao Shimizu
Yuriko Hanabusa
Ichirō Sugai
Eitarō Shindō
Sachiko Soma
Taiji Tonoyama
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