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Release Date:
October 30, 1959
Original Title:
三羽烏三代記
Production Companies:
Shochiku
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 102
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
Art Direction:
Masao Kumagai
Assistant Director:
Kôzô Tashiro
Associate Producer:
Shizuo Yamanouchi
Director:
Yoshiaki Banshō
Director of Photography:
Toshio Ubukata
Editor:
Yoshiyasu Hamamura
Executive Producer:
Tatsuo Hosoya
Lighting Technician:
Ryozo Toyoshima
Original Music Composer:
Yutaka Makino
Screenplay:
Yoshiro Tomita
Toshio Shiina
Sound Mixer:
Katsumi Uzawa
Sound Recordist:
Tokio Hiramatsu
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