Reminiscence

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.

Genre:

Drama, War

Duration:

110 min

Cast:

Michiyo Kogure, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Kimura

Quality:

HD

Director:

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Release:

1953

Country:

Japan

Rating:

7.0