< Foundry Town (1962)

MOVIE | "Kyûpora no aru machi" | 1h 39m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 7.2 (230)

Drama | Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, the movie chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families; and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through going on to higher education.

• Director: Kirio Urayama
• Sayuri Yoshinaga (17) - Jun
• Mitsuo Hamada (19) - Katsumi Tsukamoto
• Eijirō Tōno (55) - Tatsugorô Ishiguro (Jun's father)
• Shōichi Ozawa (33) - Teacher at the Juvenile Classification Office
• Kazuko Yoshiyuki (27) - Woman Worker
• Taiji Tonoyama (47) - Matsunaga
• Takeshi Katō (33) - Mr. Noda
• Tanie Kitabayashi (51) - Ume
• Tokuko Sugiyama (36) - Tomi (Jun's mother)
• Kin Sugai (36) - Miyo
• Jun Hamamura (56) - ?
• Nobuo Kawakami - Detective
• Akiji Kobayashi (32) - Hei-san
• Tsutomu Shimomoto (45) - Tôgo
• Yoshio Ichikawa - Takayuki
• Hideki Morisaka - Sankichi
• Mitsuko Suzuki - Yoshie Kanayama
• Ikunosuke Koizumi (45) - Master at ramen shop
• Hideo Takayama - ?
• Masahiro Kinoshita - ?