Overview
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
- Michiyo Kogure as Mrs. Ota
- Nobuko Otowa as Fumiko Ota
- Mitsuko Kimura as Yukiko
- Masayuki Mori as Kikuji
- Haruko Sugimura as Chikako
- Masao Shimizu
- Yuriko Hanabusa
- Ichirō Sugai
- Eitarō Shindō
- Sachiko Soma