Reminiscence

Overview

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.

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Cast

Michiyo Kogure

Mrs. Ota

Nobuko Otowa

Fumiko Ota

Mitsuko Kimura

Yukiko

Masayuki Mori

Kikuji

Haruko Sugimura

Chikako

Masao Shimizu

Yuriko Hanabusa

Ichirō Sugai

Eitarō Shindō

Sachiko Soma