Film

The Eleventh Hour

1957 · 1h 49m · Action · Drama

IMDb

7.3

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.

Takashi Shimura

Banno

Shinjirō Ehara

Yamaguchi

Kokuten Kōdō

Eiji Okada

Shimano

Eijirō Tōno

Chōko Iida

Kane Ishigaki

Jiro Takagi

Newspaper Reporter A

Yoshi Katō

Sunaga

Shin Tonomura

Kusaka

Yoshifumi Tachibana

Yui

Ei Iwagami

Ishigaki

Jun Mita

Takada

Koji Takishima

Nakatsu

Kazuo Nakano

Oyama

Takashi Kanda

Tachibana

Rinichi Yamamoto

Kawamura

• Tomu UchidaDirector · Screenplay
• Shinobu HashimotoScreenplay
• Ryuzo KikushimaNovel
• Shizuka FujiiDirector of Photography
• Taichiro KosugiOriginal Music Composer
• Fumio SodaEditor

Dotanba trailer

Release date

November 24, 1957

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 49m

Genres

Action, Drama