The Eleventh Hour

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Takashi Shimura

Banno

Age : 76 | Popularity : 14%

Shinjirô Ehara

Yamaguchi

Age : 87 | Popularity : 3%

Kokuten Kōdō

Age : 72 | Popularity : 4%

Eiji Okada

Shimano

Age : 75 | Popularity : 7%

Eijirō Tōno

Age : 86 | Popularity : 3%

Chōko Iida

Kane Ishigaki

Age : 75 | Popularity : 4%

Jiro Takagi

Newspaper Reporter A

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Yoshi Katō

Sunaga

Age : 75 | Popularity : 6%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Shinobu Hashimoto Tomu Uchida
	Novel	Ryûzô Kikushima
Directing	Director	Tomu Uchida
Art	Art Direction	Mikio Mori
Editing	Editor	Fumio Soda
Sound	Original Music Composer	Taichiro Kosugi
	Sound Recordist	Shozo Hirogami
Camera	Director of Photography	Shizuka Fujii
Department	Role	Name

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