Kane no naru oka: Dai san hen, kuro no maki

Kane no naru oka: Dai san hen, kuro no maki
Theatrical poster for Kane no naru oka: Dai san hen, kuro no maki (1949)
Directed by	Keisuke Sasaki[1]
Produced by	Shōzaburō Yamaguchi
Written by	Kazuo Kikuta Ryōsuke Saitō Sadao Nakamura
Starring	Keiji Sada
Music by	Yūji Koseki
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release dates	November 17, 1949
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Kane no naru oka: Dai-san hen, kuro no maki (鐘の鳴る丘 第三篇クロの巻 Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: the third volume) is 1949 Japanese film and the final installment of a wartime film trilogy, directed by Keisuke Sasaki, featuring the cast from the previous two Ringing Bell Hill films.

Production Notes

The success of the Ringing Bell Hill trilogy spawned a weekend radio series of 15-minute episodes, produced by NHK, featuring further adventures of a demobilized soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill.^[2]

List of a film trilogy

1. 鐘の鳴る丘 第一篇 隆太の巻 (Kane no naru oka: dai-ichi hen, ryūta no maki; Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: the first volume) (1948)
2. 鐘の鳴る丘 第二篇 修吉の巻 (Kane no naru oka: dai-ni hen, shūkichi no maki; Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: the second volume) (1949)
3. 鐘の鳴る丘 第三篇 クロの巻 (Kane no naru oka: dai-san hen, kuro no maki; Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: the third volume) (1949)

Cast

• Keiji Sada
• Taeko Takasugi
• Masao Inoue
• Michiko Namiki
• Tōdō Gekidan

References

1. Infobox data from 鐘の鳴る丘 第三篇クロの巻 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-14. and 鐘の鳴る丘　第三篇　クロの巻(1949) (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. Retrieved 2009-05-08. External link in |publisher= (help)
2. The Post-War History of Entertainment. Asahi Shimbun. 1987. ISBN 4022594446.

External links

• 鐘の鳴る丘 第三篇クロの巻 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
• 鐘の鳴る丘　第三篇　クロの巻(1949) (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. Retrieved 2009-05-08. External link in |publisher= (help)