Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised to meet again five years later at the platform of Shinagawa Station, which was crowded with repatriates. , The day of reunion is approaching.
Acting
Mikuni's haunted eyes say everything
Direction
Inoue captures post-war Japan's spiritual ruins
Cinematography
Shinagawa Station as liminal purgatory
Director
Umetsugu Inoue
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Japan's post-Occupation cinema boom, when filmmakers finally could examine wartime trauma without American censorship.
Rentaro Mikuni reportedly refused to blink during his platform scenes to suggest a man frozen in time.
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