Children of the Beehive: What Happened Next

Name: Children of the Beehive: What Happened Next
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Genre: Drama
Released: 1951-02-12
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Shinichiro Kubota, Masaru Oba, Mitsuo Harada, Eiko Tajima, Norio Tani

Original title: その後の蜂の巣の子供たち

7.0(1)19511h 35mJA

Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu

Part of the Children Of The Beehive collection

In Shimizu’s sequel to his 1948 masterpiece, a journalist arrives in the secluded foothills of Izu to find a hidden commune to ask, “What happened to the children of the Beehive?” Three years have passed and her question situates itself not only in the realm of Shimizu’s craft, but that of reality: What became of the war orphans Shimizu raised?