The Catch

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Drama
War

Overview

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.

Keywords

prisoner of war
japanese new wave

Details

Status: Released
Release date: November 22, 1961
Original language: Japanese
Spoken languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan
Production: Palace Film Production
Cast: Kyōko Uehara,Yōko Mihara,Tsuyoshi Yamada,Akira Mochizuki,Teruko Kishi,Shōji Kurosawa,Rentaro Mikuni,Shigeyuki Makie,Eiko Oshima,Kyū Sazankaand 22 more
Director: Nagisa Ōshima
Writer: Toshirō Ishidō,Toshio Matsumoto,Kenzaburô Oe,Tsutomu Tamura,Shōmei Tōmatsu
Producer: Masayuki Nakajima,Saburo Tajima
Cinematography: Yoshitsugu Tonegawa
Music: Riichirō Manabe
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0055441