
Overview
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.
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Based on
Based on Thousand Cranes
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Kaneto ShindōScreenplay
- Yasunari KawabataNovel
- Original title
- 千羽鶴
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 15, 1953
- Original language
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan































