Thousand Cranes

1h 36m
HistoryDrama
7

April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts getting tired more easily. She is sent back to the American Base Victory Hospital, where the diagnosis is lymphatic leukemia. And she has no more than a year left to live. Her parents agree with the doctor that Sadako should not be told, but will she find out anyway ?

Cast

Tamami Hirose
Unknown
Gin Maeda
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Chieko Baisho
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Mako Ishino
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Mamiko Tayama
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Hiromi Iwasaki
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Mie Watanabe
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Saburo Shinoda
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Kazuo Andō
Unknown
Taiji Tonoyama
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Chieko Aioi
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Fumie Noguchi
Unknown
Ben Hiura
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Shozo Hirabayashi
Unknown
Takahiro Tamura
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Crew

Seijiro Koyama
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Shozo Matsuda
Screenplay
Yusuke Teshima
Novel
Mitsuo Kondō
Editor
Fuminori Minami
Director of Photography
Kaichiro Nohara
Producer
Masao Haryu
Music
Akira Haruki
Art Direction

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