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RUNTIME
Did you know
Tight 74-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Cast
Raizō Ichikawa
Michiko Ai
Shinobu Araki
Saburo Date
Seishiro Hara
Yuriko Tashiro
Kenjiro Uemura
Yōko Uraji
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Minoru Watanabe
- Writers
- Kikuo Tsunoda, Hajime Takaiwa
- Languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
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Fun facts 🍿
Cinephile deep dive
The take
Minoru Watanabe directs. Kazuo Miyagawa behind the camera. Ichirō Saitō scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 74-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 268 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Directed by Minoru Watanabe, shot by Kazuo Miyagawa. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Original score by Ichirō Saitō. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
- 6Raizō Ichikawa and Michiko Ai and Shinobu Araki carry the top of the cast.
- 7IMDB entry: tt1161069 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Kazuo Miyagawa
- Original score
- Ichirō Saitō
- Runtime
- 74 min · 1h 14m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- JA
Also by
Minoru Watanabe
Production companies
Who made it
Daiei Film
JP
Key crew
- Original StoryKikuo Tsunoda
- ProducerShin Sakai
- Art DirectionAkira Naitō
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1958-01-09
Also known as
International titles
- Tsukihime keizuJP