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.
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Director
Michiyo Kogure
Mrs. Ota
Nobuko Otowa
Fumiko Ota
Mitsuko Kimura
Yukiko
Masayuki Mori
Kikuji
Haruko Sugimura
Chikako
Masao Shimizu
Yuriko Hanabusa
Ichirō Sugai
Eitarō Shindō
PASSION63%
Waiting for Anya62%
Fires Were Started60%
PiCNiC68%
The Scarlet and the Black70%
Behold a Pale Horse60%
Jacknife63%
Ararat61%
For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada68%
The Kill Team64%
アナタハン68%
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell68%
Men in War66%
King Rat71%
The Last Rifleman66%
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing66%
Max61%
Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog68%
Boudica58%
The One That Got Away68%
