Ichimai no hagaki
Postcard
- Release Date
- August, 6th, 2011
- Running Time
- 114 min
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- 35mm
- Screen Size
- American Vista (1:1.85)
- Sound Processing
- DTS
- Subtitle
- English
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- TOYOKAWA Etsushi ── MATSUYAMA Keita
- OTAKE Shinobu ── MORIKAWA Yuko
- MUSAKA Naomasa ── MORIKAWA Sadazo
[ Staff ]
- SHINDO Kaneto ── Screenplay
- SHINDO Kaneto ── Original Story
- HAYASHI Masahiko ── Director of Photography
- WATANABE Yukio ── Editor
- YAMASHITA Hiroshi ── Lighting
- NAGATA Hidenori ── Lighting
- KANAKATSU Hirokazu ── Production Design
- HAYASHI Hikaru ── Music
[ 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
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