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is a 1955 color Japanese
drama film
directed by Koji Shima
. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival
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Cinema of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Koji Shima
Koji Shima
was a Japanese film director, actor and screenwriter.-Career:Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He was in the first class of the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō and joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. Playing mostly romantic leads, he...
. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival
1956 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Maurice Lehmann *Arletty *Louise de Vilmorin *Jacques-Pierre Frogerais *Henri Jeanson *Domenico Meccoli *Otto Preminger *James Quinn *Roger Regent *María Romero...
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Cast
- Bontarô Miyake - Yasuke Shiraishi
- Ayako WakaoAyako Wakaois a Japanese actress. Contracted to Daiei Studios in 1951 as part of the fifth "New Face" group, she often appeared in the films of director Yasuzo Masumura...
- Yuki Shiraishi - Yukihiro Iwatare - Jiro Shiraishi
- Yoshiro Kitahara - Toki Onoshi
- Koreya Senda - Hamamura
- Eijirô Yanagi - Hyogoro Onishi
- Akihiko Yusa - Ichiro Shiraishi