Epitome (film)

Epitome
Directed byKaneto Shindō
Written byKaneto Shindō
Shūsei Tokuda (novel)
Produced byKōzaburō Yoshimura
StarringNobuko Otowa
Isuzu Yamada
Sō Yamamura
CinematographyTakeo Itō
Edited byYoshitama Imaizumi
Music byAkira Ifukube
Production
company
Distributed byShintoho
Release date
  • 8 April 1953 (1953-04-08) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time
133 minutes[1][2]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Epitome (縮図, Shukuzu) is a 1953 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō,[1][2][3] based on an unfinished novel by Shūsei Tokuda.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b c "縮図 (Epitome)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "縮図 (Epitome)" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Epitome". Complete Index to World Film. 31 May 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  4. ^ Entry for Epitome at worldcat.org. OCLC 728709633. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  5. ^ Ueda, Atsko; Bourdaghs, Michael K.; Sakakibara, Richi; Toeda, Hirokazu, eds. (2017). The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism, 1945–52. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-8075-4.