(千羽鶴)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Japan

Genres:

Drama,

War

Runtime:

110 minutes

Year:

1953

Directors:

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Production companies:

Daiei Film

Actors:

Mrs. Ota

Fumiko Ota

Yukiko

Kikuji

Chikako

Crews:

Director

Screenplay

Novel

Original Music Composer

Director of Photography