The Catch
Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”
Cast
Rentaro Mikuni
Kazumasa Takano
Akiko Koyama
Hiroko Ishii
Yōko Mihara
Sachiko Tsukada
Masako Nakamura
Hisako
Teruko Kishi
Masu
Sadako Sawamura
Katsu
Kyū Sazanka
Jun Hamamura
Rokkō Toura
Ton Shimada
Yoshi Katō
Norikazu Takeda
Hisashi Imabashi
Shirō Aikawa
Toshirō Ishidō
Jiro, Yoichi's son
Nobuko Maki
Eiko Ōshima
Hōsei Komatsu
Hisao Irizumi
Shigeyuki Makie
Masaomi Kyōsu
Kyōko Uehara
Itsuko Uehara
Shōji Kurosawa
Hiroshi Tanino
Tsuyoshi Yamada
Haruo Suzuki
Hideo Suzuki
Asaji Nakajima
Shin Katsuragi
Akira Mochizuki
Hugh Hurd
Black Soldier
Crew
Nagisa Ōshima
Director
Yokichi Hishinuma
Lighting Technician
Itsuro Hirata
Art Direction
Tsutomu Tamura
Screenplay
Michio Okazaki
Sound Recordist
Yoshitsugu Tonegawa
Director of Photography
Saburo Tajima
Executive Producer
Miyuri Miyamori
Editor
Riichirō Manabe
Original Music Composer
Hiromi Yanagida
Assistant Director
Masayuki Nakajima
Executive Producer
Toshio Matsumoto
Screenplay
Shōmei Tōmatsu
Screenplay
Kenzaburô Oe
Novel
Toshirō Ishidō
Screenplay