Reminiscence

千羽鶴

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.

Director

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Screenplay

Kaneto Shindō

Novela

Yasunari Kawabata

Music

Akira Ifukube

Status

Released

Release date

15/01/1953

Original language

Japanese