Sound of the Mountain

Sound of the Mountain
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMikio Naruse
Written by
Produced bySanezumi Fujimoto
Starring
CinematographyMasao Tamai
Edited byEiji Ooi (credited as Hideji Ooi)
Music byIchirō Saitō
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 15 January 1954 (1954-01-15) (Japan)[1]
Running time
95 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Sound of the Mountain (Japanese: 山の音, Hepburn: Yama no oto) is a 1954 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the novel The Sound of the Mountain by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata.[1] Naruse declared Sound of the Mountain one of his favourites of his films.[2]

  1. ^ a b c "山の音 (Sound of the Mountain)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  2. ^ Russell, Catherine (2008). The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4290-8.