160 minutes of concrete, cranes, and corporate drama. Somehow riveting.
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
Cinematography
Towering steel skeletons shot like monuments
Direction
Sekigawa makes bureaucracy visually hypnotic
Practical Effects
Real construction site, real danger, real sweat
Director
Hideo Sekigawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Japan's 1960s economic miracle, the film questions the human cost of the 'miracle' itself. Radical for its time.
Shot on location at the actual Kasumigaseki Building construction site with real workers as extras. Some hadn't acted before or since.
JP
