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.
Length 110 minutes
Masayuki Mori | Nobuko Otowa | Taiji Tonoyama | Michiyo Kogure | Eitarô Shindô | Haruko Sugimura | Masao Shimizu | Ichirô Sugai | Mitsuko Kimura | Teruko Omi | Yuriko Hanabusa | Sachiko Soma | Chikako Kaga