The Eleventh Hour
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.
Cast
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Takashi Shimura
Played Banno
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Shinjirō Ehara
Played Yamaguchi
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Kokuten Kōdō
Played
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Eiji Okada
Played Shimano
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Eijirō Tōno
Played
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Chōko Iida
Played Kane Ishigaki
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Jiro Takagi
Played Newspaper Reporter A
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Yoshi Katō
Played Sunaga
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Shin Tonomura
Played Kusaka
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Yoshifumi Tachibana
Played Yui
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Ei Iwagami
Played Ishigaki
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Jun Mita
Played Takada
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Koji Takishima
Played Nakatsu
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Kazuo Nakano
Played Oyama
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Takashi Kanda
Played Tachibana
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Rinichi Yamamoto
Played Kawamura
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Shiko Saito
Played Director Yoshikawa
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Kentaro Taki
Played Director Ueda
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Masako Nakamura
Played Michi Kogen
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Motoharu Ueki
Played Jiro Takahara
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Tokue Hanazawa
Played Takichi Banno
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Kyoko Shinobazu
Played Katsuko Banno
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Yōyō Kojima
Played Kaichi Yui
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Itaru Hamada
Played Yamaguchi's father
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Akiko Kazami
Played Kiku Noda
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Eri Tsuruma
Played Toshi Noda
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Hisako Takihana
Played Toshie Sunaga
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Rikiya Iwaki
Played Yoshino
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Akikane Sawa
Played Kawasaki
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Susumu Namishima
Played Yokota
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Tokio Kozuka
Played Nishiyama
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Yuji Kitamine
Played Reporter C
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Tadashi Minamikawa
Played Broadcaster A
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Hiroshi Asahina
Played Broadcast Reporter B
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Masazumi Okabe
Played Messenger
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Tadashi Suganuma
Played Diver
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Kyosuke Makino
Played Doctor
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Kyoji Sugi
Played Popsicle shop
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Yoshitaka Kosugi
Played Murase
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Katsuya Ishimaru
Played Noda
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Hidesuke Sone
Played
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Kōji Sekiyama
Played
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