Film

Dash to the Sun

1966 · 1h 28m · Music

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.

Sonny Chiba

Yukiyo Toake

Hiroyuki Nagato

Kenji Imai

Reiko Ōhara

Ichirō Sugai

Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Eijirō Tōno

Hiroshi Yagyu

Kenji Sugawara

Hideo Sunazuka

Akikane Sawa

Kakuko Chino

Zeko Nakamura

Mineo Matsudaira

Genji Kawai

• Ryuichi TakamoriDirector
• Yuichi IkedaScreenplay
• Shoei NishikawaDirector of Photography
• Minoru EndoOriginal Music Composer
• Yoshiki NagasawaEditor

Release date

September 8, 1966

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Music