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2011

Ichimai no hagaki

Postcard

一枚のハガキ

(c)Kindai Eiga Kyokai/Watanabe Syoji/Plandas

(c)Kindai Eiga Kyokai/Watanabe Syoji/Plandas

(c)Kindai Eiga Kyokai/Watanabe Syoji/Plandas

(c)Kindai Eiga Kyokai/Watanabe Syoji/Plandas

Release Date
August, 6th, 2011
Running Time
114 min
Genre
Drama , Feature
Color
Color
Screening Format
35mm
Screen Size
American Vista (1:1.85)
Sound Processing
DTS
Subtitle
English

[ Directed by ]

[ Produced by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Watanabe Shoji, Plandas

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

Tokyo Theatres

[ Production Studio ]

Kindai Eiga Kyokai

[ Story ]

One of Japan's foremost filmmakers, Shindo Kaneto is also the oldest director in Japan and has won numerous awards at film festivals at home and abroad. This work, which Shindo himself described as "the final directorial effort of my life in film," is a drama based on his own experiences that delves deeply into the emotions of ordinary people whose lives have been wrecked by war. Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged conscript Matsuyama Keita (Toyokawa Etsushi) is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, he visits the postcard's sender, his comrade's wife Yuko (Otake Shinobu), and bears witness to the tragic life she has led.

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

Tokyo International Film Festival 2010 Jury's special award

[ Contact (International) ]

KINDAI EIGA KYOKAI CO., LTD.
4F, Katagiri Bldg., 2-36-2 Kanda-Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051
Rep: SHINDO Jiro
tel: +81-3-6261-3101
fax: +81-3-6261-3102
E-mail: kindai@kindaieikyo.com
http://www.kindaieikyo.com

Relative Titles

Teacher and Three Children

Teacher and Three Children (2008)

Director
SHINDO Kaneto
Cast
EMOTO Akira, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, MUSAKA Naomasa

The latest by Shindo Kaneto who has won various awards both in Japan and abroad including the Grand Prix at the Moscow International Film Festival. It has been seventy years since he started his creative work, and as the oldest director at work at th...

Release Date
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OWL

OWL (2003)

Director
SHINDO Kaneto
Cast
OTAKE Shinobu, ITO Ayumi

At the grand old age of 92, master filmmaker Shindo Kaneto (The Island, Onibaba) presents his 36th film. In a desolate, pioneer village in postwar northern Japan, a 37-year-old mother, Yumie (Otake Shinobu), and her 17-year-old daughter, Emiko (Ito ...

Release Date
Feb, 7th, 2004
THE WARSHIP THAT WALKED ON LAND

THE WARSHIP THAT WALKED ON LAND (2007)

Director
YAMAMOTO Yasuhiro
Cast
SHINDO Kaneto, OTAKE Shinobu, KANIE Ippei

A documentary drama that recreates the war experience of Shindo Kaneto of The Island (Hadaka no Shima) and Will to Live(Ikitai) with testimonies and reconstructions. It highlights the unfairness of war from the viewpoint of a powerless soldier and po...

Release Date
Jul, 28th, 2007
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)

Director
SHINDO Kaneto
Cast
TANAKA Kinuyo, KYO Machiko, YAMADA Isuzu

This is a documentary on the life and films of Kenji Mizoguchi, the great Japanese film director who died in 1956, directed by the now well-known creator of films who was once assistant director to Mizoguchi. Beginning in the hospital where Mizoguch...

Release Date
May, 24th, 1975