Reminiscence (千羽鶴) 71 years old

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.

Credits

Nobuko Otowa as Fumiko Ota

Masayuki Mori as Kikuji

Michiyo Kogure as Mrs. Ota

Haruko Sugimura as Chikako

Mitsuko Kimura as Yukiko

Reminiscence Cast

Name	Character
Nobuko Otowa She was 28, 70 years old when she died	as Fumiko Ota
Masayuki Mori He was 42, 62 years old when he died	as Kikuji
Michiyo Kogure She was 34, 72 years old when she died	as Mrs. Ota
Haruko Sugimura She was 44, 88 years old when she died	as Chikako
Mitsuko Kimura	as Yukiko

Reminiscence Crew

Name	Department
Kazuo Miyagawa as Cinematography. He was 44 (90) years old when He died	Crew
Kaneto Shindō as Screenplay. He was 40 (100) years old when He died	Writing
Yasunari Kawabata as Novel. He was 53 (72) years old when He died	Writing
Akira Ifukube as Original Music Composer. He was 38 (91) years old when He died	Sound
Kōzaburō Yoshimura as Director. He was 41 (89) years old when He died	Directing

Reminiscence (71 years)

Release day: Thursday, January 15, 1953
Runtime: 110 minutes