Kitakami Nocturne (1961)
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...
Director:
Yoshitsugu Nakajima
Writers:
Gan Yamazaki, Ryuma Takemori.
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Tamio Kawachi as Keisuke Shirato |
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Chieko Matsubara as Shizuko Suda |
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Yuji Odaka as Ryoichi Yamada |
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Hiroshi Kondō as |
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Yoshiko Nezu as Akiko's friend A |
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Yuko Minakaze as Akiko Yokota |
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Keiko Akashi as Akiko's friend C |
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Shosei Muto as Tadahiko Sugimoto |
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Fudeko Tanaka as Keisuke's mother |
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Hiroshi Chō as Newspaper reporter |
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Kosuke Hisamatsu as Keisuke's father |
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Ikunosuke Koizumi as Matchmaker |
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Nobue Shiina as Akiko's friend B |
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Ikuko Kimuro as Akiko's friend D |
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Sachiko Soma as Keisuke's aunt |
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Masaru Kamiyama as Debt collector 1 |
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Hiroshi Chiyoda as Hot spring resort clerk |
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Gen Mihama as Debt collector 2 |
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Teruaki Toki as Track athlete 1 |
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Yasuo Itoga as Track athlete 3 |
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Akira Nakao as Student |
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Takeo Ono as Magazine company division chief |
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Miyoko Ieneya as |
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Kōji Yashiro as Magazine company division chief |
| Lighting | Isamu Takahashi | Lighting Technician |
| Writing | Gan Yamazaki | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ryuma Takemori | Screenplay |
| Art | Yoshinaga Yoko'o | Art Direction |
| Editing | Shinya Inoue | Editor |
| Camera | Izumi Hagiwara | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Yoshitsugu Nakajima | Director |
| Directing | Atsushi Fujiura | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Seiichi Mawatari | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Toshimi Katagiri | Sound Recordist |