The Day the Sun Rose
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.
- Year: 1968
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Nippon Eiga Fukko Kyokai
- Keyword: civil war, based on novel or book, brigand, clans
- Director: Daisuke Itō, Tetsuya Yamanouchi
- Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Toshirō Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Takahiro Tamura, Eitarō Ozawa, Kunie Tanaka