Children of Hiroshima
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Children of Hiroshima is a 1952 Japanese film
directed by Kaneto Shindō
. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival
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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...
directed by Kaneto Shindō
Kaneto Shindo
, Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His best known films include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note.Shindō has often made films dealing with Hiroshima or the atomic bomb...
. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival
1953 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Jean Cocteau *Louis Chauvet *Titina De Filippo *Guy Desson *Philippe Erlanger *Renée Faure *Jacques-Pierre Frogerais *Abel Gance *André Lang...
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Cast
- Nobuko OtowaNobuko OtowaNobuko Otowa was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She was married to film director Kaneto Shindō...
- Takako Ishikawa - Osamu TakizawaOsamu Takizawawas a Japanese actor. He was born in Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. Starting at the Tsukiji Little Theater, Takizawa participated in a number of theatrical troupes before forming Gekidan Mingei with Jūkichi Uno. His was praised for his performance in Death of a Salesman and also directed a version of The...
- Iwakichi - Niwa Saito - Natsue Morikawa
- Tsuneko Yamanaka
- Shinya Ofuji
- Takashi Itō
- Chikako Hosokawa - Setsu, Takako's mother
- Masao Shimizu - Toshiaki, Takako's father
- Yuriko Hanabusa - Oine
- Tanie KitabayashiTanie Kitabayashiwas a Japanese actress.Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards...
- Otoyo - Tsutomu Shimomoto - Natsue's husband
- Eijirô TonoEijirô Tonowas a Japanese actor who took supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Yojimbo , as well as Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story and An Autumn Afternoon ....
- Taiji Tonoyama - Owner of a ship
- Jukichi Uno - Koji (scenes deleted)