Black River (1957 film)
Black River | |
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Directed by | Masaki Kobayashi |
Starring | Ineko Arima Fumio Watanabe Tatsuya Nakadai Keiko Awaji |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
Release date |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Black River (黒い河, Kuroi kawa) is a 1957 Japanese film directed by Masaki Kobayashi.[1] The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means. The film was screened at the 2005 New York Film Festival in a theatrical retrospective celebrating the Shochiku Company's 110th year.[2]
Cast[]
Actor | Role |
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Ineko Arima | Shizuko |
Fumio Watanabe | Nishida |
Tatsuya Nakadai | Joe |
Asao Sano | Sakazaki |
Okada | |
Keiko Awaji | Yasuko |
Seiji Miyaguchi | Kin |
Isuzu Yamada | Landlady |
Eijirō Tōno | Kurihara |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Various sources alternately put the year of release in 1956 or 1957.
"Black River". Shochiku. Archived from the original on 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2009-06-30.Year: 1956
Richie, Donald (2005). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos. Kodansha International. p. 163. ISBN 4-7700-2995-0. Archived from the original on 2008-11-21.Black River (Kuroi kawa, 1956)
黒い河 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-06-30.1956.10.23
"黒い河" (in Japanese). Shochiku Online. Archived from the original on 2009-06-21. Retrieved 2009-06-30.制作年: 1957年
"黒い河 (邦画)" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2009-06-30.公開年月日: 1957/10/23
Desser, David (May 1988). Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema. Indiana University Press. pp. 42. ISBN 0-253-31961-7.Kuroi kawa (Black River, 1957)
Shapiro, Michael (December 1991). "Japan and the U.S. Share an Uneasy Artistic Peace". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-06-30.Masaki Kobayashi's 'Black River' (1957)
"Tatsuya Nakadai Filmography". The Criterion Collection. Archived from the original on 2007-12-13. Retrieved 2009-06-30.Black River (Kuroi kawa) Masaki Kobayashi, 1957
"Kuroi Kawa". AllMovie. Retrieved 2009-06-30.Year: 1957
- ^ "The Beauty of the Everyday: Japan's Shochiku Company at 110". Film Society of Lincoln Center. 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
External links[]
- Black River at IMDb
- Black River (in Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database
Categories:
- 1957 films
- Japanese-language films
- 1956 films
- Japanese films
- Japanese black-and-white films
- Films directed by Masaki Kobayashi
- Shochiku films
- 1950s Japanese film stubs