The Eleventh Hour [421634] Released: 1957-11-24 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 109 mins Popularity: 0.5198 Vote Average: 7.2 Vote Count: 6 Overview: 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. Cast [42] Takashi ShimuraBanno Shinjirō EharaYamaguchi Kokuten Kōdō Eiji OkadaShimano Eijirō Tōno Chōko IidaKane Ishigaki Jiro TakagiNewspaper Report Yoshi KatōSunaga Shin TonomuraKusaka Yoshifumi TachibanaYui Ei IwagamiIshigaki Jun MitaTakada Kōji TakishimaNakatsu Kazuo NakanoOyama Takashi KandaTachibana Rinichi YamamotoKawamura Shiko SaitoDirector Yoshika Kentaro TakiDirector Ueda Masako NakamuraMichi Kogen Motoharu UekiJiro Takahara Tokue HanazawaTakichi Banno Kyoko ShinobazuKatsuko Banno Yōyō KojimaKaichi Yui Itaru HamadaYamaguchi's fath Akiko KazamiKiku Noda Eri TsurumaToshi Noda Hisako TakihanaToshie Sunaga Rikiya IwakiYoshino Akikane SawaKawasaki Susumu NamishimaYokota Tokio KozukaNishiyama Yuji KitamineReporter C Tadashi MinamikawaBroadcaster A Hiroshi AsahinaBroadcast Report Masazumi OkabeMessenger Tadashi SuganumaDiver Kyosuke MakinoDoctor Kyoji SugiPopsicle shop Yoshitaka KosugiMurase Katsuya IshimaruNoda Hidesuke Sone Kōji Sekiyama Trailers Dotanba trailer