A Slope in the Sun
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aka A Slope in the Sun is a 1958 black-and-white Japanese film
drama directed by Tomotaka Tasaka
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The film is based on the novel by Yōjirō Ishizaka
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The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards
for best director and also won 1959 Mainichi Film Concours for best cinematography.
Cinema of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...
drama directed by Tomotaka Tasaka
Tomotaka Tasaka
was a Japanese film director.-Career:Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, he began working at Nikkatsu's Kyoto studio in 1924 and eventually came to prominence for a series of realist, humanist films made at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio in the late 1930s such as Robō no ishi and Mud and Soldiers, both of...
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The film is based on the novel by Yōjirō Ishizaka
Yojiro Ishizaka
was an influential and popular novelist of post-World War II Japan.-Education and early career:Born at Daikancho 82, Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Ishizaka went to Hirosaki Middle School in 1913 and then to Keio University in 1920. On graduating, he took a position at Hirosaki Women's High School....
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The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards
Blue Ribbon Awards
The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan.The awards were established in 1950 by which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers...
for best director and also won 1959 Mainichi Film Concours for best cinematography.
Cast
- Yujiro IshiharaYujiro Ishiharawas a Japanese actor and singer born in Kobe. His elder brother, Shintaro Ishihara, is an author, politician, and the current Governor of Tokyo. Yujiro debuted in 1956 in "Season of the Sun," based on a novel written by his brother...
as Shinji Tashiro - Mie Kitahara as Takako
- Koreya Senda as Tamakichi Tashiro
- Yukiko TodorokiYukiko TodorokiYukiko Todoroki was a Japanese actress. Her real name was Tsuruko Nishiyama. She also participated in the Takarazuka Revue. At Takarazuka, she was known not by her real name, but by the stage name Toruko . Her birthplace was Shinbori, Azabu-ku in Tokyo. Her two ex-husbands were film directors...
as Midori Tashiro - Izumi Ashikawa as Kumiko Tashiro
- Tamio Kawachi as Tamio Takagi
- Isamu KosugiIsamu Kosugiwas a Japanese actor and film director.-Career:Born in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, Kosugi first studied at the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō before joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925...
as Shiosawa - and others