Yellow Crow (1957)

  • NR
  • 02/27/1957 (JP)
  • Drama
  • 1h 44m

Overview

In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents the story of Kiyoshi Yoshida (Koji Shitara), who feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war. How the boy adapts to life with the virtual stranger his father has become is the film's focus. Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô and Yoshiko Kuga also star.

Heinosuke Gosho

Director

Kennosuke Tateoka

Screenplay

Keiji Hasebe

Screenplay

Cast

Chikage Awashima's headshot

Chikage Awashima

Machiko Yoshida
Yūnosuke Itō's headshot

Yūnosuke Itō

Ichiro Yoshida
Kinuyo Tanaka's headshot

Kinuyo Tanaka

Yukiko Matsumoto
Yoshiko Kuga's headshot

Yoshiko Kuga

Yasuko Ashihara
Kôji Shitara's headshot

Kôji Shitara

Kiyoshi Yoshida
Jun Tatara's headshot

Jun Tatara

Chōko Iida's headshot

Chōko Iida

Zeko Nakamura's headshot

Zeko Nakamura

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