Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.
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Sayuri Yoshinaga as Jun
Mitsuo Hamada as Tsukamoto, Katsumi
Eijirō Tōno as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
Tokuko Sugiyama as Tomi (Jun's mother)
Takeshi Katō as Mr. Noda
Tanie Kitabayashi as Ume
Kin Sugai as Miyo
Yoshio Ichikawa as Takayuki
Taiji Tonoyama as Matsunaga
Tomio Aoki as Worker A
Nobuo Kawakami as Detective
Akiji Kobayashi as Hei-san
Ikunosuke Koizumi as Master at ramen shop
Chiyo Hayafune Novel
Kimihiko Nakamura Production Design
Kirio Urayama Director
Shinsaku Himeda Director of Photography
Toshirō Mayuzumi Original Music Composer
Kirio Urayama Screenplay
Shōhei Imamura Screenplay
Kanō Ōtsuka Producer
Matsuo Tanji Editor
Tsuneo Furuyama Sound Recordist
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Foundry Town Trailer
Japan 08 April 1962
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1962:
01 January 1962
As the Cold War bristles with menace in the 60s, the youth at Kielder Workman’s Club celebrate free time with an American dance called the ‘Twist’.
31 December 1962
A short drama which seeks to explore some of the problems in inter-faith relationships.
16 October 1962
Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play 'rugger' and can't sink a whole pint of beer, and African student Reggie.
01 February 1962
Two identical twin sisters...one is very,very good--one is very, very bad. The good twin is due some big bucks.
15 September 1962
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual.
01 February 1962
When a worker digging up a rose bed in the garden of a rich, influential factory owner uncovers a skeleton, suspicion spreads: Is the man who is so respected in the town possibly a murderer?
02 August 1962
Raja, the son of a rich man who was cheated of his wealth by Jambu, grows up in an orphanage. He becomes a famous poet in the city with the help of Jambu's family, unaware of his past.
21 November 1962
Rosina is frustrated by her engagement to millionaire John Johnson III, a fussy, domineering, control freak.
02 January 1962
A day in the life of London and the Home Counties in 1962, seen from the perspective of the use of London Transport facilities from buses and tubes to long distance coach routes, accompanied by extracts from BBC radio.
26 October 1962
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
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