Chōkōsō no Akebono () is ōkōsōa 1969 Japanese film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan. Kajima Construction, the builder of the Kasumigaseki building, was also the backer of the film. Mark Schilling of The Japan Times said that Kajima reportedly pushed 1.7 million advance tickets on its subcontractors and on ramen vendors who sold lunch to Kajima employees.

Cast

Ryō Ikebe as Ejiri

Tetsurō Tanba as Kinoshita

Isao Kimura as Saeki

Mikijiro Hira

Masakazu Tamura as Shimamura

Yoshiko Sakuma as Naoko

Nobuo Nakamura as Furukawa

Michiyo Aratama

Kuniko Miyake

Tanie Kitabayashi

Ichirō Sugai as Isobe

Junzaburō Ban as Hoshino

Nenji Kobayashi

Eijirō Yanagi as Okabayashi

Akiji Kobayashi as Komori

Fumio Watanabe as Takemoto

Matsumoto Hakuō I as Kawashima

Shūji Sano as Kashima

References

External links

1969 films

Japanese drama films

Films scored by Masaru Sato

1960s Japanese films

Chōkōsō no Akebono