Movielogr
The Eleventh Hour (1957)
Directed by Tomu Uchida
Overview
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
Length 109 minutes
Actors
Takashi Shimura | Shinjirô Ehara | Kokuten Kôdô | Eiji Okada | Eijirô Tôno | Chôko Iida | Jiro Takagi | Yoshi Katô | Shin Tonomura | Yoshifumi Tachibana | Ei Iwagami | Jun Mita | Koji Takishima | Kazuo Nakano | Takashi Kanda | Rinichi Yamamoto | Shiko Saito | Kentaro Taki | Masako Nakamura | Motoharu Ueki | Tokue Hanazawa | Kyoko Shinobazu | Yôyô Kojima | Itaru Hamada | Akiko Kazami | Eri Tsuruma | Hisako Takihana | Rikiya Iwaki | Akikane Sawa | Susumu Namishima | Tokio Kozuka | Yuji Kitamine | Tadashi Minamikawa | Hiroshi Asahina | Masazumi Okabe | Tadashi Suganuma | Kyosuke Makino | Kyoji Sugi | Yoshitaka Kosugi | Fujiya Ishimaru | Shusuke Sone | Kôji Sekiyama