Thousand Cranes (1969)
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.
Top billed cast
Ayako WakaoMrs. Ota
Machiko KyōChikako Kurimoto
Mikijiro HiraKikuji Mitani
Eiko AzusaFumiko
Eiji FunakoshiKikuji's father
Tanie KitabayashiToyo
Yôko NamikawaYukiko Inamura
Nobuko Shingu
Sumire Mikasa
Yoshio Takee
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