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
Koji 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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