At the Time Men Have Seen Blood (1949)
A group of men obsessed with oil gather in a remote oil field region. Ichiro Kitazawa (Tatsuzaki) was one of them. He had a daughter-in-law named Harue Saijo (Takasugi), but he felt no affection for her. Ichiro, however, had spent the inheritance Harue had inherited from her father to find oil. Ichiro was now being bled by Butterfly (Hidaka), an eccentric female waitress at the Kinryu-tei. Harue took a train one day to visit Ichiro. She then befriended a man called Ken Matsuki (Dainikata), who had saved her from a crisis. Matsuki was a friend of Kitazawa, a man who was also passionate about the oil search.
Director:
Shigeo Tanaka
Writer:
Hajime Takaiwa
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Masao Wakahara as |
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Den Obinata as |
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Sumiko Hidaka as |
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Taeko Takasugi as |
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Seizaburō Kawazu as |
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Ichirō Izawa as |
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Isamu Yamaguchi as |
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Kikuko Tachibana as |
| Directing | Shigeo Tanaka | Director |
| Writing | Hajime Takaiwa | Screenplay |
| Camera | Shigeyoshi Mine | Director of Photography |
| Art | Koichi Takahashi | Art Direction |
| Sound | Mitsuo Hasegawa | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Shinnosuke Andô | Lighting Technician |
| Sound | Ichirō Saitō | Original Music Composer |