The Thick-Walled Room (1956)
A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
Director:
Masaki Kobayashi
Writer:
Kōbō Abe
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Torahiko Hamada as Yamashita |
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Kō Mishima as Yokota |
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Tsutomu Shimomoto as Kimura |
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Kinzō Shin as Kawanishi |
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Kōji Mitsui as Nishimura |
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Yūnosuke Itō as Heo (Korean) |
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Ryōhei Uchida as Yokota's brother |
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Toshiko Kobayashi as Yamashita's sister |
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Ryuji Kita as |
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Keiko Kishi as Yoshiko |
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Eitarō Ozawa as Hamada |
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Yūko Mochizuki as Hamada's wife |
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Unpei Yokoyama as Grandfather |
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Minoru Ōki as War criminal |
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Tomo'o Nagai as War criminal |
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Yoshiko Togawa as Woman in red-light district |
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Tomio Aoki as |
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Toshirō Hayano as |
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Hiroshi Hijikata as |
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Takeshi Katō as |
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Shinichirō Minami as |
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Asao Sano as |
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Tsuneko Sasaki as |
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Toshio Shimamura as |
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Isao Suenaga as |
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Shozo Suzuki as |
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Eiko Takamatsu as |
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Norikazu Takeda as |
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Hisashi Taki as |
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Jun Tanizaki as |
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Jun Yokoyama as |
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Shoichi Kofujita as |
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Binnosuke Nagao as |
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Shōbun Inoue as |
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Tatsuya Nakadai as Prisoner (uncredited) |
| Directing | Masaki Kobayashi | Director |
| Art | Kimihiko Nakamura | Art Direction |
| Directing | Kazui Nihonmatsu | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Hisao Ōno | Sound |
| Art | Mototsugu Komaki | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Yûgorô Imai | Assistant Director |
| Art | Takamasa Kobayashi | Set Designer |
| Editing | Shizuo Oosawa | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Hideyoshi Hayashi | Costume Design |
| Production | Masahiro Kosugi | Production Supervisor |
| Camera | Hiroshi Kusuda | Director of Photography |
| Production | Takeshi Ogura | Producer |
| Sound | Chūji Kinoshita | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Kazuo Ishihara | Sound mixer |
| Sound | Kan Nakamura | Sound Recordist |
| Writing | Kōbō Abe | Screenplay |
| Lighting | Ryozo Toyoshima | Lighting Artist |
