The Eleventh Hour
(1957)
★ 7.4 IMDb · 7 votes
Year: 1957
Runtime: 108 мин
Country: Japan
Director: 内田吐夢
Cast: Такаси Симура, 江原真二郎, 高堂国典, 岡田英次, 東野英治郎, 飯田蝶子, 高木二朗, Ёси Като, 外野村晋, Yoshifumi Tachibana
Plot
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.