Hi no ataru sakamichi (1958) AKA A Slope in the Sun

Based on the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka (The Blue Mountains), who wrote this novel with Yujiro Ishihara and James Dean’s performance in East of Eden in mind. In this three-and-a-half-hour epic, Yujiro Ishihara is Yuji, who fights with his older brother over the same girl, while finding out the secrets of his birth.

Director: Tomotaka Tasaka.
Writers: Ichirô Ikeda (screenplay), Yôjirô Ishizaka (novel) (“Hi no ataru sakamichi”), Tomotaka Tasaka (screenplay).
Stars: Yujiro Ishihara, Mie Kitahara, Koreya Senda, Yukiko Todoroki, Izumi Ashikawa, Tamio Kawachi, Isamu Kosugi.
Cinematographer: Saburô Isayama.
Composer: Masaru Satô.