The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Hour (1957)

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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.

Casts

	Takashi Shimura as Banno
	Shinjirō Ehara as Yamaguchi
	Kokuten Kōdō as
	Eiji Okada as Shimano
	Eijirō Tōno as
	Chōko Iida as Kane Ishigaki
	Jiro Takagi as Newspaper Reporter A
	Yoshi Katō as Sunaga
	Shin Tonomura as Kusaka
	Yoshifumi Tachibana as Yui
	Ei Iwagami as Ishigaki
	Jun Mita as Takada
	Koji Takishima as Nakatsu
	Kazuo Nakano as Oyama
	Takashi Kanda as Tachibana
	Rinichi Yamamoto as Kawamura
	Shiko Saito as Director Yoshikawa
	Kentaro Taki as Director Ueda
	Masako Nakamura as Michi Kogen
	Motoharu Ueki as Jiro Takahara
	Tokue Hanazawa as Takichi Banno
	Kyoko Shinobazu as Katsuko Banno
	Yōyō Kojima as Kaichi Yui
	Itaru Hamada as Yamaguchi's father
	Akiko Kazami as Kiku Noda
	Eri Tsuruma as Toshi Noda
	Hisako Takihana as Toshie Sunaga
	Rikiya Iwaki as Yoshino
	Akikane Sawa as Kawasaki
	Susumu Namishima as Yokota
	Tokio Kozuka as Nishiyama
	Yuji Kitamine as Reporter C
	Tadashi Minamikawa as Broadcaster A
	Hiroshi Asahina as Broadcast Reporter B
	Masazumi Okabe as Messenger
	Tadashi Suganuma as Diver
	Kyosuke Makino as Doctor
	Kyoji Sugi as Popsicle shop
	Yoshitaka Kosugi as Murase
	Katsuya Ishimaru as Noda
	Hidesuke Sone as
	Kōji Sekiyama as

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