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.
Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Kimura, Masayuki Mori, Haruko Sugimura, Masao Shimizu
Crew: Kōzaburō Yoshimura (Director), Kaneto Shindō (Screenplay), Akira Ifukube (Original Music Composer), Yasunari Kawabata (Novel), Kazuo Miyagawa (Director of Photography)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Daiei Film
Runtime: 110 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 15, 1953
IMDb: 10
Keywords:sad story