The Eleventh Hour (1957)
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.
Director:
Tomu Uchida
Writers:
Tomu Uchida, Shinobu Hashimoto.
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Takashi Shimura as Banno |
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Shinjirō Ehara as Yamaguchi |
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Kokuten Kōdō as |
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Eiji Okada as Shimano |
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Eijirō Tōno as |
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Chōko Iida as Kane Ishigaki |
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Jiro Takagi as Newspaper Reporter A |
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Yoshi Katō as Sunaga |
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Shin Tonomura as Kusaka |
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Yoshifumi Tachibana as Yui |
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Ei Iwagami as Ishigaki |
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Jun Mita as Takada |
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Koji Takishima as Nakatsu |
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Kazuo Nakano as Oyama |
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Takashi Kanda as Tachibana |
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Rinichi Yamamoto as Kawamura |
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Shiko Saito as Director Yoshikawa |
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Kentaro Taki as Director Ueda |
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Masako Nakamura as Michi Kogen |
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Motoharu Ueki as Jiro Takahara |
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Tokue Hanazawa as Takichi Banno |
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Kyoko Shinobazu as Katsuko Banno |
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Yōyō Kojima as Kaichi Yui |
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Itaru Hamada as Yamaguchi's father |
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Akiko Kazami as Kiku Noda |
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Eri Tsuruma as Toshi Noda |
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Hisako Takihana as Toshie Sunaga |
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Rikiya Iwaki as Yoshino |
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Akikane Sawa as Kawasaki |
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Susumu Namishima as Yokota |
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Tokio Kozuka as Nishiyama |
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Yuji Kitamine as Reporter C |
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Tadashi Minamikawa as Broadcaster A |
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Hiroshi Asahina as Broadcast Reporter B |
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Masazumi Okabe as Messenger |
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Tadashi Suganuma as Diver |
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Kyosuke Makino as Doctor |
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Kyoji Sugi as Popsicle shop |
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Yoshitaka Kosugi as Murase |
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Katsuya Ishimaru as Noda |
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Hidesuke Sone as |
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Kōji Sekiyama as |
| Writing | Ryuzo Kikushima | Novel |
| Sound | Taichiro Kosugi | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Shizuka Fujii | Director of Photography |
| Art | Mikio Mori | Art Direction |
| Sound | Shozo Hirogami | Sound Recordist |
| Directing | Tomu Uchida | Director |
| Writing | Tomu Uchida | Screenplay |
| Writing | Shinobu Hashimoto | Screenplay |
| Editing | Fumio Soda | Editor |