Black Sun (1964)
黒い太陽
Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstandings and culture clash, Akira agrees to help Gill escape towards the sea, dodging military police along the way.
- Date of release
- 1964-04-24
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Koreyoshi Kurahara
Casting
- Tamio Kawachi — Akira
- Chico Lourant — Gill
- Tatsuya Fuji — Akira's Buddy
- Yuko Chishiro — Yuki
- Hideji Ōtaki — Old Man at the Junk Shop
- Shogen Nitta — Engineer
- Zenji Yamada — Owner
- Ryūsei Itō
- Tōru Sumikawa — Cop E
- Gō Kuroda — Cop D
- Takashi Nomura
- Yū Izumi
Interesting facts
Black Sun is a 1964 Nikkatsu film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara based on a story by Tensei Kono and starring Tamio Kawachi and Chico Lourant. The film had many of the same cast, crew, and characters as Kurahara's earlier film The Warped Ones.
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