The Eleventh Hour
The Eleventh Hour
Watch the eleventh hour 123movies. Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Tomu Uchida
- Cast: Takashi Shimura, Shinjirô Ehara, Kokuten Kōdō, Eiji Okada, Eijirō Tōno, Chōko Iida, Jiro Takagi, Yoshi Katō, Shin Tonomura, Yoshifumi Tachibana, Ei Iwagami, Jun Mita
