The Eleventh Hour (movie)
どたんば- User score: 7.2
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Tomu Uchida
- Production companies: Toei Company
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 11/24/1957
- Run time: 109 min.
Movie description
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.
