About
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.
Director
Writers
Music
Studio
Toei Company
Original Title
どたんば
Original Language
Japanese
Cast
Full credits →T
Takashi Shimura
Banno
S
Shinjirō Ehara
Yamaguchi
K
Kokuten Kōdō
E
Eiji Okada
Shimano
E
Eijirō Tōno
C
Chōko Iida
Kane Ishigaki
J
Jiro Takagi
Newspaper Reporter A
Y
Yoshi Katō
Sunaga
S
Shin Tonomura
Kusaka
Y
Yoshifumi Tachibana
Yui
E
Ei Iwagami
Ishigaki
K
Koji Takishima
Nakatsu
T
Takashi Kanda
Tachibana
R
Rinichi Yamamoto
Kawamura
S
Shiko Saito
Director Yoshikawa
K
Kentaro Taki
Director Ueda
M
Masako Nakamura
Michi Kogen
M
Motoharu Ueki
Jiro Takahara
T
Tokue Hanazawa
Takichi Banno
K
Kyoko Shinobazu
Katsuko Banno
