Film

Summer in Eclipse

19561h 27m

Director: Hiromichi Horikawa
Year: 1956

Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while finding little happiness when he begins a liaison with an older woman.

Top cast

Shintarō Ishihara

Naoki Mishima

So Yamamura

Kozo Mishima

Kuniko Miyake

Akiko Mishima

Yōko Tsukasa

Kioko

Setsuko Wakayama

Taeko

Jun Hongo

Reiichi

Mieko Takamine

Setsuko

Hajime Izu

Hamasaki

Noriko Sengoku

Kumi

田中稔

Matsui

Hiroo Kirino

Yoshiyuki Uemura

Kunihiko Shiihara

佐藤充

Akihiko Hirata

Makoto Satō

Directed by

Hiromichi Horikawa

Written by

Shintarō Ishihara, Toshiro Ide

Produced by

Masakatsu Kaneko