Reminiscence

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.

Country:

Japan

Genre:

Drama,

War

Duration:

110 minutes

Year:

1953

Director:

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

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Company:

Daiei Film

Cast:
Michiyo Kogure

Mrs. Ota

Nobuko Otowa

Fumiko Ota

Mitsuko Kimura

Yukiko

Masayuki Mori

Kikuji

Haruko Sugimura

Chikako

Crew:
Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Director

Kaneto Shindō

Screenplay

Akira Ifukube

Original Music Composer

Yasunari Kawabata

Novel

Kazuo Miyagawa

Director of Photography