70
GoodGoodWatch scoreSummary
A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death of a teacher in the remote Hokuriku region.
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 61GoodWatch 71
IMDb6.1
Running time
1 h 24 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 thrillers, −20 min on the typical 104
typical 10484Half of all thrillers run 94–118 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
1961
August 26, 1961
65 years ago
Genres
ThrillerDramaLanguage
Japanese
Original language
Made in
- Japan
Directing · 1
- Teruo Ishii Director, Screenplay
Writing · 2
- Hajime Takaiwa Screenplay
- Tsutomu Mizukami Novel
Production · 1
- Koji Kameda Executive Producer
Camera · 1
- Saburo Sato Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Hiroshi Suzuki Editor
Sound · 2
- Chūji Kinoshita Original Music Composer
- Tadayuki Komatsu Sound Recordist
Art · 1
- Toshio Nakajima Art Direction
Lighting · 1
- Yoshiaki Morisawa Lighting Technician
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