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RUNTIME
Did you know
Tight 77-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Cast
Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Jun Usami
Kuniko Igawa
Reikichi Kawamura
Sadako Sawamura
Shinichi Himori
Ichirō Shimizu
Kōji Mitsui
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Shunkai Mizuho
- Writers
- Tadao Ikeda, Tomiyasu Ikeda
- Languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
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Fun facts 🍿
Cinephile deep dive
The take
Shunkai Mizuho directs. Akira Futo behind the camera. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 77-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 276 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Directed by Shunkai Mizuho, shot by Akira Futo. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Yoshiko Yamaguchi and Jun Usami and Kuniko Igawa carry the top of the cast.
- 6IMDB entry: tt0183609 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 7Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Akira Futo
- Runtime
- 77 min · 1h 17m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- JA
Also by
Shunkai Mizuho
Production companies
Who made it
Shochiku
JP
Key crew
- NovelMinoru Nakano
- ProducerTetsu Suyama
- MusicYoshi Tashiro
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1950-02-19