Chōkōsō no Akebono explained

Chōkōsō no akebono
Director:	Hideo Sekigawa
Producer:	Ujitoshi Iwasa
Story:	Ryūzō Kikushima
Music:	Masaru Satō
Cinematography:	Hanjiro Nakazawa
Editing:	Yoshiki Nagasawa
Distributor:	Toei
Runtime:	160 minutes
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

Chōkōsō no Akebono (Japanese: 超高層のあけぼの||Dawn of the Skyscraper) is a 1969 Japanese film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.^{[1] [2]} 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.^[3]

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 超高層のあけぼの (Chōkōsō no akebono) . ja . . 27 December 2020.
2. Web site: 第13回 超高層のあけぼの (Dawn of the Skyscraper) . Noriyuki . Kashima . Kajima Corporation . Japanese . 28 December 2020.
3. Web site: 'Happy Flight' – Airplane flick tells only half the story . Schilling . Mark . 14 November 2008 . The Japan Times . 8 January 2021.