The Ditch

7.0

Genre: Drama
Run time: 111 min
Premiere: 1954. July 27.

Director: Kaneto Shindō
Writer: Kaneto Shindō Gorō Tanada
Starring: Nobuko Otowa Jūkichi Uno Taiji Tonoyama Sō Yamamura

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.

Discover

Nobuko Otowa

Tsuru

Jūkichi Uno

Taiji Tonoyama

Sō Yamamura

Ichirō Sugai

Kamatari Fujiwara

Takashi Kanda

Tsutomu Shimomoto

Yoshi Katō

Kinzō Shin

Bokuzen Hidari

Chieko Nakakita

Mayuri Mokushô

Chōko Iida

Tamae Kiyokawa

Ranko Akagi

Yumi Takano

Noriko Honma

Art

Takashi Marumo

Art Direction

Camera

Takeo Itō

Director of Photography

Crew

Kenji Nagaoka

Sound Recordist

Directing

Kaneto Shindō

Director

Editing

Zenju Imaizumi

Editor

Lighting

Shoichi Tabata

Lighting Technician

Production

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Executive Producer

Sound

Akira Ifukube

Original Music Composer

Writing

Kaneto Shindō

Screenplay

Gorō Tanada

Screenplay

Art

Takashi Marumo

Art Direction

Camera

Takeo Itō

Director of Photography

Crew

Kenji Nagaoka

Sound Recordist

Directing

Kaneto Shindō

Director

Editing

Zenju Imaizumi

Editor

Lighting

Shoichi Tabata

Lighting Technician

Production

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Executive Producer

Sound

Akira Ifukube

Original Music Composer

Writing

Kaneto Shindō

Screenplay

Gorō Tanada

Screenplay