Hi no Tori (Japanese: 火の鳥, Hepburn: Hi no Tori) is a 1978 Japanese jidaigeki film written and directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is based on the "Dawn" storyline from Osamu Tezuka's manga of the same title.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Hi no Tori | |
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Directed by | Kon Ichikawa |
Screenplay by | Shuntarō Tanikawa |
Story by | Osamu Tezuka |
Based on | "Dawn" from Phoenix |
Produced by | Kiichi Ichikawa Kunihiko Murai |
Starring | Tomisaburo Wakayama Toshinori Omi Masao Kusakari Mieko Takamine Ken Tanaka Mitsuko Kusabue Masaya Oki Tatsuya Nakadai |
Cinematography | Kiyoshi Hasegawa |
Edited by | Michiko Ikeda Chizuko Osada |
Music by | Jun Fukamachi |
Production companies | Firebird Productions Tezuka Productions |
Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 137 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Himiko, the queen of Yamatai, orders her subordinates to search for the Phoenix, which is said to have eternal life for those who drinks its blood.[8]
Films directed by Kon Ichikawa | |
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