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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky [この広い空のどこかに]

Release Year
1954
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Drama
Directed By
Masaki Kobayashi
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Cast & Crew

Cast

Keiji Sada

Ryoichi Morita

Yoshiko Kuga

Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife

Hideko Takamine

Yasuko, Ryoichi's sister

Akira Ishihama

Noboru, Ryoichi's brother

Minoru Ôki

Shun-don

Toshiko Kobayashi

Hisako, Shinkichi's sister

Masami Taura

Mr. Mitsui, Noboru's friend

Kumeko Urabe

Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother

Chieko Nakakita

Natsuko

Eiko Miyoshi

Shinichi Himori

Ryôhei Uchida

Shinkichi, Hiroko's friend

Crew

Masaki Kobayashi

Director

Yoshiko Kusuda

Screenplay

Toshiyasu Morita

Director of Photography

Chūji Kinoshita

Original Music Composer

Yoshi Sugihara

Editor

Masae Hosoi

Costume Design

Kôzô Kubo

Producer

Hisao Ôno

Sound

Hideo Nishizaki

Sound

Shûzô Horikawa

Sound mixer

Yûgorô Imai

Assistant Director

Kazue Hirataka

Art Direction

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