Ditch
7.3
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
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Cast
27 people
Nobuko Otowa
Tsuru
Known for
Onibaba
The Naked Island
Jūkichi Uno
Known for
Nobody's Boy: Remi
Onibaba
Kaneto Shindō
Also in
The Battleship on the Ground
Hymn
Taiji Tonoyama
Known for
Onibaba
In the Realm of the Senses
So Yamamura
Known for
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tokyo Story
Akira Ifukube
Ichirō Sugai
Known for
Sansho the Bailiff
The Life of Oharu
Zenju Imaizumi
Kamatari Fujiwara
Known for
Seven Samurai
The Hidden Fortress
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Takashi Kanda
Known for
Return of Giant Majin
Gorô Tanada
Kaneto Shindō Director · Gorō Tanada Screenplay Akira Ifukube Composer
First release July 27, 1954 · Produced in Japan · Original title どぶ
Production
Kindai Eiga Kyokai
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
どぶ
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · July 27, 1954
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
September 29, 2011 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Kaneto Shindô Films
Singapore
July 8, 2013 · Japanese Film Festival Singapore
Spain
January 3, 2016 · limited VOS
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