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.
Takashi Shimura
Banno
Shinjirō Ehara
Yamaguchi
Kokuten Kōdō
Cast
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どたんば
November 24, 1957
1h 49m
7.4
Tomu Uchida
Ryuzo Kikushima, Tomu Uchida, Shinobu Hashimoto
7
Toei Company
JP
Eiji Okada
Shimano
Eijirō Tōno
Cast
Chōko Iida
Kane Ishigaki
Jiro Takagi
Newspaper Reporter A
Yoshi Katō
Sunaga
Shin Tonomura
Kusaka
Yoshifumi Tachibana
Yui
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