Chōkōsō no Akebono (Japanese: 超高層のあけぼの, lit. 'Dawn of the Skyscraper') is a 1969 Japanese film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.[1][2] Kajima Construction, the builder of the Kasumigaseki building, was also the backer of the film. Mark Schilling of The Japan Times said that Kajima reportedly pushed 1.7 million advance tickets on its subcontractors and on ramen vendors who sold lunch to Kajima employees.[3]
| Chōkōsō no akebono | |
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| Directed by | Hideo Sekigawa |
| Screenplay by |
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| Story by | Ryūzō Kikushima |
| Produced by | Ujitoshi Iwasa |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Hanjiro Nakazawa |
| Edited by | Yoshiki Nagasawa |
| Music by | Masaru Satō |
| Distributed by | Toei |
Release date |
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Running time | 160 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Cast edit
- Ryō Ikebe as Ejiri
- Tetsurō Tanba as Kinoshita
- Isao Kimura as Saeki
- Mikijiro Hira
- Masakazu Tamura as Shimamura
- Yoshiko Sakuma as Naoko
- Nobuo Nakamura as Furukawa
- Michiyo Aratama
- Kuniko Miyake
- Tanie Kitabayashi
- Ichirō Sugai as Isobe
- Junzaburō Ban as Hoshino
- Nenji Kobayashi
- Eijirō Yanagi as Okabayashi
- Akiji Kobayashi as Komori
- Fumio Watanabe as Takemoto
- Matsumoto Hakuō I as Kawashima
- Shūji Sano as Kashima
References edit
- ^ "超高層のあけぼの (Chōkōsō no akebono)" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ Noriyuki, Kashima. "第13回 超高層のあけぼの (Dawn of the Skyscraper)" (in Japanese). Kajima Corporation. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
- ^ Schilling, Mark (14 November 2008). "'Happy Flight' – Airplane flick tells only half the story". The Japan Times. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
External links edit
- Chōkōsō no akebono at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
- Chōkōsō no akebono (entry contains incorrect info) at IMDb
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