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Director:
Kon Ichikawa
Writers:
Aya Koda (novel)
Yôko Mizuki (writer)
Release Date:
1 November 1960 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama more
Awards:
14 wins & 1 nomination more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Keiko Kishi ... Gen
Hiroshi Kawaguchi ... Hekiro
Kinuyo Tanaka ... Mother
Masayuki Mori ... Father
Kyôko Kishida ... Mrs. Tanuma
Noboru Nakaya ... Patrolman Rokoru Shimizu
Kyôko Enami ... Nurse Miyata
Jun Hamamura ... Doctor
Hikaru Hoshi ... Owner of hiring horse
Juzo Itami ... Son of Factory owner
Noriko Hodaka ... Nurse
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Her Brother
Younger Brother
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Runtime:
98 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Daiei Studios more

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Trivia:
To achieve the specific period look they intended for the film, director Kon Ichikawa and cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa were inspired by the use of color in Moby Dick (1956) (which was dye-transfer Technicolor added with a B/W layer) and experimented on a process that is now called "skip-bleaching". It was the first time in film history that this process, now a rather commonly-used one, was applied for a motion picture film. more

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