The Eleventh Hour (1957)
Overview
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
Overview
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
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Release Date
November 24, 1957
Rating
Runtime
1h 49m
Official Trailer from YouTube
Takashi Shimura
Banno
Shinjirō Ehara
Yamaguchi
Kokuten Kōdō
Eiji Okada
Shimano
Eijirō Tōno
Chōko Iida
Kane Ishigaki
Jiro Takagi
Newspaper Reporter A
Yoshi Katō
Sunaga
Shin Tonomura
Kusaka
Yoshifumi Tachibana
Yui
Ei Iwagami
Ishigaki
Jun Mita
Takada
Koji Takishima
Nakatsu
Kazuo Nakano
Oyama
Takashi Kanda
Tachibana
Rinichi Yamamoto
Kawamura
Shiko Saito
Director Yoshikawa
Kentaro Taki
Director Ueda
Masako Nakamura
Michi Kogen
Motoharu Ueki
Jiro Takahara
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