Yellow Crow

Yellow Crow

104 mins | Drama | Feb. 27, 1957

In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents the story of Kiyoshi Yoshida (Koji Shitara), who feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war. How the boy adapts to life with the virtual stranger his father has become is the film's focus. Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô and Yoshiko Kuga also star.

Yellow Crow

104 mins | Drama | Feb. 27, 1957

Yellow Crow
In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents the story of Kiyoshi Yoshida (Koji Shitara), who feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war. How the boy adapts to life with the virtual stranger his father has become is the film's focus. Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô and Yoshiko Kuga also star.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Kabukiza
Original title 黄色いからす
Directors Hideo Horie, Heinosuke Gosho
Writers Kennosuke Tateoka, Keiji Hasebe

Cast

Chikage Awashima

as Machiko Yoshida

Yūnosuke Itō

as Ichiro Yoshida

Kinuyo Tanaka

as Yukiko Matsumoto

Yoshiko Kuga

as Yasuko Ashihara

Kôji Shitara

as Kiyoshi Yoshida