Film

The Catch

6.519611h 45mNRWar Drama

Age rating: NR
Director: Nagisa Ōshima
Year: 1961

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.

Top cast

Rentaro Mikuni

Kazumasa Takano

Akiko Koyama

Hiroko Ishii

Yōko Mihara

Sachiko Tsukada

Hugh Hurd

Black Soldier

Masako Nakamura

Hisako

Teruko Kishi

Masu

Sadako Sawamura

Katsu

Kyū Sazanka

Rokkō Toura

Jun Hamamura

Ton Shimada

Yoshi Katō

Norikazu Takeda

Hisashi Imahashi

Shirō Aikawa

Toshirō Ishidō

Jiro, Yoichi's son

Nobuko Maki

Eiko Oshima

Directed by

Nagisa Ōshima

Written by

Tsutomu Tamura, Toshio Matsumoto, Shōmei Tōmatsu, Toshirō Ishidō