Snow Country (film)

Snow Country
Original Japanese poster
Directed by	Shirō Toyoda
Produced by	Toho
Written by	Toshio Yasumi
Based on	Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Starring	Ryo Ikebe Keiko Kishi Kaoru Yachigusa
Music by	Ikuma Dan
Cinematography	Jun Yasumoto
Edited by	Koichi Iwashita
Distributed by	Toho
Release dates	1957
Running time	133 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni) is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese drama film directed by Shirō Toyoda based on the novel Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata. The film was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Cast

Ryo Ikebe - Shimamura
Keiko Kishi - Komako
Kaoru Yachigusa - Yoko
Daisuke Kato
Akira Kubo
Hisaya Morishige - Yukio
Chieko Naniwa - Head maid
Maruo Tanaka - Porter

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: Snow Country". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-14.

External links

Snow Country at the Internet Movie Database

Works by Yasunari Kawabata

Works

Novels	The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (1930) Snow Country (1935–1937), (1947) The Master of Go (1951–1954) Thousand Cranes (1949–1952) The Sound of the Mountain (1949–1954) The Lake (1954) The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) The Old Capital (1962) Beauty and Sadness (1964)

Short stories	"The Dancing Girl of Izu" (1926) One Arm (1964 novella) Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

Notable
adaptations

Sound of the Mountain (1954)
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1954)
Snow Country (1957)
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
Woman of the Lake (1966)
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1974)
Koto (1980)
Sleeping Beauty (2001)

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