
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
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Takashi Shimura as Banno

Shinjirō Ehara as Yamaguchi

Kokuten Kōdō as

Eiji Okada as Shimano

Eijirō Tōno as

Chōko Iida as Kane Ishigaki

Jiro Takagi as Newspaper Reporter A

Yoshi Katō as Sunaga

Shin Tonomura as Kusaka

Yoshifumi Tachibana as Yui

Ei Iwagami as Ishigaki

Jun Mita as Takada

Kōji Takishima as Nakatsu

Kazuo Nakano as Oyama

Takashi Kanda as Tachibana

Rinichi Yamamoto as Kawamura

Shiko Saito as Director Yoshikawa

Kentaro Taki as Director Ueda

Masako Nakamura as Michi Kogen

Motoharu Ueki as Jiro Takahara

Tokue Hanazawa as Takichi Banno

Kyoko Shinobazu as Katsuko Banno

Yōyō Kojima as Kaichi Yui

Itaru Hamada as Yamaguchi's father

Akiko Kazami as Kiku Noda

Eri Tsuruma as Toshi Noda

Hisako Takihana as Toshie Sunaga

Rikiya Iwaki as Yoshino

Akikane Sawa as Kawasaki

Susumu Namishima as Yokota

Tokio Kozuka as Nishiyama

Yuji Kitamine as Reporter C

Tadashi Minamikawa as Broadcaster A

Hiroshi Asahina as Broadcast Reporter B

Masazumi Okabe as Messenger

Tadashi Suganuma as Diver

Kyosuke Makino as Doctor

Kyoji Sugi as Popsicle shop

Yoshitaka Kosugi as Murase

Katsuya Ishimaru as Noda

Hidesuke Sone as

Kōji Sekiyama as
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