Film · 1988

Sakura-tai Chiru

Name: Sakura-tai Chiru
Director: Kaneto Shindō
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 1988-04-01
Rating: 6.8

113 min · Directed by Kaneto Shindō

Documentary Drama

6.84
ratings

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.

Cast

Eitarō Ozawa

Koreya Senda

Nobuko Otowa

Haruko Sugimura

Osamu Takizawa

Jūkichi Uno

S

Shôji Furuta

T

Takako Miki

Yasuko Yagami

Taiji Tonoyama

Jun Hamamura

Kunitarō Kawarasaki

Harue Tone

Zenpei Saga

Crew

Director: Kaneto Shindō
Producer: Setsuo Noto, Kiyoshi Mizokami
Writer: Kaneto Shindō
Editor: Mitsuo Kondō
Cinematography: Yoshiyuki Miyake
Art Direction: Shigemori Shigeta
Composer: Hikaru Hayashi

Details

Studios: Kindai Eiga Kyokai
Countries: Japan
Languages: Japanese
Release: April 1, 1988

Themes

theater trouperadiation sicknesstheatre companyhiroshima bombing

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