Castle of Sand

Castle of Sand
Castle of Sand - Original Japanese Poster Art
Directed by	Yoshitarō Nomura
Produced by	Shinobu Hashimoto Yoshihara Mishima Masayuki Sato
Written by	Seicho Matsumoto (novel) Yoshitaro Nomura Shinobu Hashimoto Yôji Yamada
Music by	Mitsuaki Kanno Kosuke Sugano
Cinematography	Takashi Kawamata
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release dates	October 19, 1974 (1974-10-19)
Running time	143 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Castle of Sand (砂の器 Suna no utsuwa) is a 1974 Japanese police procedural directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, based on the novel "Inspector Imanishi Investigates" by Seicho Matsumoto.

Plot

Yoshitaro Nomura’s 1974 film of Seicho Matsumoto’s immensely popular detective story tells the tale of two detectives, Imanishi (Tetsuro Tamba) and Yoshimura (Kensaku Morita), tasked with tracking down the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard.

Cast

Tetsuro Tamba - Detective Eitaro Imanishi
Go Kato - Eiryo Waga/Hideo Motoura
Kensaku Morita - Detective Hiroshi Yoshimura
Yôko Shimada - Rieko Naruse
Karin Yamaguchi - Sachiko Tadokoro
Ken Ogata - Kenichi Miki
Seiji Matsuyama - Shokichi Miki
Yoshi Kato - Chiyokichi Motoura
Chishū Ryū - Kojuro Kirihara

Awards

1975 Kinema Junpo Award^[1]
- Best Screenplay (Shinobu Hashimoto and Yôji Yamada)
Readers' Choice Award
- Best Japanese Film Director (Yoshitaro Nomura)
1975 Mainichi Film Concours
- Best Director (Yoshitaro Nomura)
- Best Film (Yoshitaro Nomura)
- Best Film Score (Kosuke Sugano )
- Best Screenplay (Shinobu Hashimoto and Yôji Yamada)
9th Moscow International Film Festival^[2]
- Diploma (Yoshitaro Nomura)
- Nominated for Golden Prize (Yoshitaro Nomura).

References

↑ IMDB award listing.
↑ "9th Moscow International Film Festival (1975)". MIFF. Retrieved 2013-01-06.

External links

Castle of Sand at the Internet Movie Database
Castle of Sand at AllMovie

Films directed by Yoshitaro Nomura

Izu no odoriko (1954) Zero Focus (1961) Castle of Sand (1974) The Demon (1978) The Incident (1978) Suspicion (1982)

Mainichi Film Award for Best Film

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