Reminiscence / 1953

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.

Thousand Cranes / 1969

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.

A Thousand Flying Cranes / 1959

The Thousand Cranes Secret scroll / 1959

An entertaining historical drama directed by Kenji Misumi, director of "Kagero Kasa," based on an original scenario by Fuji Yahiro of "Young Nobunaga." The photo was taken by Chikichiro Takeda of "Edokko Sakura."

A Folded Wish / 20206.73 voti

A pair of twin sisters attempt to fold a thousand origami cranes in hopes to recover from a fatal disease.