The Eleventh Hour

109 mins
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.

Shozo Hirogami

Sound Recordist

Shizuka Fujii

Director of Photography

Mikio Mori

Art Direction

Taichiro Kosugi

Original Music Composer

Tomu Uchida

Director

Tomu Uchida

Screenplay

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