
Information
Release DateJanuary 15, 1953
Runtime1h 50m
StatusReleased
ProductionDaiei Film
LanguagesJapanese
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Popularity2
Synopsis
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.
Cast & Crew
Director

Featured Cast

Michiyo Kogure
Mrs. Ota

Nobuko Otowa
Fumiko Ota
Mitsuko Kimura
Yukiko

Masayuki Mori
Kikuji

Haruko Sugimura
Chikako