The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (Bakumatsu taiyoden) (1957)

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Directed by

Yuzo Kawashima

Starring (View all)

Frankie Sakai
Inokori Saheiji, the stayer

Sachiko Hidari
Osome, the prostitute

Yôko Minamida
Koharu, the prostitute

Yûjirô Ishihara
Shinsaku Takasugi

Izumi Ashikawa
Ohisa, the maid

Nobuo Kaneko
Denbei

Hisano Yamaoka
Otatsu - Denbei's wife

Yasukiyo Umeno
Tokusaburô - Otatsu's son

Written by

Yuzo Kawashima
(screenplay)

Shohei Imamura
(screenplay)

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9 years, 8 months ago at Aug 20 16:31

Kenji

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Maestro magician, prestidigitator of panache, Kawashima conjures a freewheeling farce of felicitous finesse in a bawdy bordello. Wiith lustrous lighting, consummate choreography and composition, 'tis a coruscating concoction of concuspicent cavortings, pissing and politicking in turbulent times- and for our company a cast of cute combative courtesans, seditious scheming samurai and a jovial japing... read more

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Release date: 14 July 1957

Tags: Japan (2), 1950s (2), Samurai (1), 1957 (1), East Asia (1)

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" In the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times. "

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"7.6. Farssimaiseksi pelleilyksi äityvä bordelliin sijoittuva komedia onnistuu repimään paikoitellen todella tarkkanäköistä huumoria japanilaisesta yhteiskunnasta - naisen asemasta ja miehisten miesten kunniakäytöksestä. Parhaimmillaan Bakumatsu taiyo-den (joku miljoona eri kirjoitustapaa, elokuvan itsensäkin alkaessa kolme erilaista) on aivan loistava. Valitettavasti se on paikoitellen myös vähän heikompilaatuinen. Lopussa tuleva huijausjuoni erään hahmon kuolemasta on täysin t"

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“Maestro magician, prestidigitator of panache, Kawashima conjures a freewheeling farce of felicitous finesse in a bawdy bordello. Wiith lustrous lighti”