Movie: Reminiscence

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Michiyo Kogure
木暮実千代

Mrs. Ota

Nobuko Otowa
乙羽信子

Fumiko Ota

Mitsuko Kimura
木村三津子

Yukiko

Masayuki Mori
森雅之

Kikuji

Haruko Sugimura
杉村春子

Chikako

Masao Shimizu
清水将夫

Yuriko Hanabusa
英百合子

Ichirō Sugai
菅井一郎

Eitarō Shindō
進藤英太郎

Sachiko Soma
相馬幸子

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    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.

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    1953-01-15

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