Eclipse Series 7: Postwar Kurosawa
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Film Info
- Japan
- 1946
- 110 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.33:1
- Japanese
In Akira Kurosawa’s first film after the end of World War II, future beloved Ozu regular Setsuko Hara gives an astonishing performance as Yukie, the only female protagonist in Kurosawa’s body of work and one of his strongest heroes. Transforming herself from genteel bourgeois daughter to independent social activist, Yukie traverses a tumultuous decade in Japanese history.
Cast
| Yukie Yagihara | Setsuko Hara |
| Ruykichi Noge | Susumu Fujita |
| Professor Yagihara | Denjiro Okochi |
| Madame Noge | Haruko Sugimura |
| Madame Yagihara | Eiko Miyoshi |
| Itokawa | Aritake Kono |
Credits
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Screenplay | Eijirô Hisaita |
| Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
| Music | Tadashi Hattori |
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Eclipse Series 7: Postwar Kurosawa
By January 14, 2008
NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH: RECOVERY EFFORT As Japan was coming out of World War II, Akira . . . Read more »
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Eclipse Series 7: Postwar Kurosawa
By January 14, 2008
NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH: RECOVERY EFFORT As Japan was coming out of World War II, Akira . . . Read more »
