Where Chimneys Are Seen

Where Chimneys Are Seen
Directed byHeinosuke Gosho
Written byHideo Oguni (screenplay)
Rinzō Shiina (novel)
Produced byYoshishige Uchiyama
StarringKen Uehara
Kinuyo Tanaka
Hideko Takamine
CinematographyMitsuo Miura
Edited byNobu Nagata
Music byYasushi Akutagawa
Distributed byShintoho
Release date
  • 5 March 1953 (1953-03-05) (Japan)
[1]
Running time
108 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Where Chimneys Are Seen (煙突の見える場所, Entotsu no mieru basho), also titled Four Chimneys, is a 1953 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Heinosuke Gosho. Based on the novel Mujaki na hitobito by Rinzō Shiina,[1] Where Chimneys Are Seen is regarded as one of Gosho's most important and well-known films[2][3] and a typical example of the shōshimin-eiga genre.[4]

  1. ^ a b "煙突の見える場所". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  2. ^ Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.
  3. ^ "Where Chimneys Are Seen". Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  4. ^ Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (1959). The Japanese Film – Art & Industry. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company.

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