The Catch (1961)

War
Drama

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

Kazumasa Takano
Rentaro Mikuni
Hiroko Ishii
Akiko Koyama
Yoshi Katō
Black Soldier
Hugh Hurd
Jiro, Yoichi's son
Toshirō Ishidō
Sachiko Tsukada
Yōko Mihara
Hisako
Masako Nakamura
Masu
Teruko Kishi
Katsu
Sadako Sawamura
Kyū Sazanka
Jun Hamamura
Rokkō Toura
T Ton Shimada

Crew

Director
Nagisa Ōshima
Executive Producer
S Saburo Tajima
Executive Producer
M Masayuki Nakajima
Screenplay
Tsutomu Tamura
Director of Photography
Y Yoshitsugu Tonegawa
Lighting Technician
Y Yokichi Hishinuma
Art Direction
I Itsuro Hirata
Sound Recordist
M Michio Okazaki
Original Music Composer
Riichirō Manabe
Editor
M Miyuri Miyamori
Assistant Director
H Hiromi Yanagida
Screenplay
Toshio Matsumoto
Screenplay
Toshirō Ishidō
Novel
K Kenzaburô Oe
Screenplay
S Shōmei Tōmatsu