Koto no tsume
1957, regia
di
Hiromichi Horikawa
Scheda:
Nazione: Giappone
- Produzione:
Toho Company Ltd. - Distribuzione:
Toho International Company Inc.
- Soggetto: tratto da Genroku Shushingura, Oishi Saigo no
Ichihichi di
Seika Mayama
- Sceneggiatura: Ryuzo Kikushima,
Tokuhei Wakao - Fotografia: Kazuo Yamasaki - Musiche: Masaru Satô - Formato: B.N.
- Durata: 106' (54').
Cast:
Koshiro Matsumoto,
Ganjiro Nakamura,
Minosuke Yamada,
Shiro Tsuchiya,
Haruo Tanaka,
Akihiko Hirata,
Shin Morikawa,
Yu Fujiki,
Sachio Sakai,
Ikio Sawamura.
Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review:
moviestation.org -
wildscreen.tv -
omdb.si -
cinema.theiapolis.com -
IMDb:
«I'm not sure if this is the movie I'm thinking of, but if it is, this
movie is a mixture of really bad and incredibly good. It starts with an old man
praying for his god to end his life soon so that he is not a burden to his grand
daughter. Enter our anti-hero, who, upon hearing the prayer, grants the old man
his wish by beheading him. We discover that this powerful sword wielder is
morally weak and is powerless to stop himself if people ask him to do awful
things (even though they might not really mean it). We find the anti-hero is the
major contender for a local sword contest, and as such, is approached by his
best competitors wife, who says she "will do anything" for him, if he throws the
fight. Of course, the price the anti-hero exacts is that she must submit to him
physically. The whole town finds out about it the day of the contest, and thus,
the two competitors are now pitted against each other -- but the stakes have
been raised to life or death. Naturally, the anti-hero kills the woman's husband.
Then kills a dozen of his friends who jump him on the way home. The woman is
kicked out of her (husband's) family, and thus approaches the anti-hero to take
her in. This is just the beginning of the story! There are corny things, like a
well pump to symbolize intercourse, and red herrings galore such as a gun that
is never really put to use, a man who trains and trains to face the anti-hero
but never does, and the old man (from the first scene)'s daughter who pops up
now and then but never seems to turn the plot. On the other hand there are
terrific suspense scenes and well-drawn scenes where the anti-hero finds himself
engrossed and drawn to evil deeds in an extraordinarily self-reflexive way. For
all this movies pitfalls, I consider it a must see for the 60% of the movie that
is just dynamite».
Conosciuto anche con il titolo:
Last Day of Samurai.
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