Chōkōsō no Akebono
Chōkōsō no Akebono (Japanese: 超高層のあけぼの, lit. 'Dawn of the Skyscraper') is a 1969 Japanese film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.[1] Kajima Construction, the builder of the Kasumigaseki building, was also the backer of the film. Mark Schilling of The Japan Times said that Kajima reportedly pushed 1.7 million advance tickets on its subcontractors and on ramen vendors who sold lunch to Kajima employees.[2]
| Chōkōsō no Akebono | |
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| Directed by | Hideo Sekigawa |
| Screenplay by | Eiichi Kudo. |
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| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Distributed by | Toei |
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Running time | 160 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The Kasumigaseki Building, the subject of the film
Cast
- Ryō Ikebe as Ejiri
- Tetsurō Tanba as Kinoshita
- Isao Kimura as Saeki
- Mikijiro Hira
- Masakazu Tamura as Shimamura
- Nobuo Nakamura as Furukawa
- Michiyo Aratama
- Kuniko Miyake
- Tanie Kitabayashi
- Ichirō Sugai as Isobe
- Junzaburō Ban as Hoshino
- Nenji Kobayashi
- Eijirō Yanagi as Okabayashi
- Fumio Watanabe as Takemoto
- Matsumoto Hakuō I as Kawashima
- Shūji Sano as Kashima
References
- Noriyuki, Kashima. "第13回 超高層のあけぼの (Dawn of the Skyscraper)" (in Japanese). Kajima Corporation. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
- Schilling, Mark. "'Happy Flight' – Airplane flick tells only half the story". The Japan Times. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
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