Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957)
(A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, Bakumatsu taiyôden)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw 110m
Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Cast: Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Synopsis:
In 1862 Tokyo, as the foreign quarter grows in unpopularity, a noted cut through is home to competing brothels, whose patrons include merchants, samurai and grifters of all kinds. One of the latter, a Scanarelle-like character, stays on, pretending that his friends will return to settle his bill. In due course he is made to stay on and work off his debt, which suits him fine with his failing health, and he proves the value of his wit and cunning on more than one occasion.
Review:
What passes for a frank enough comedy given its age, and not without style and verve, especially with the camera negotiating the ins and outs of the whorehouse and its district. It is, however, very Japanese, with some exceedingly coarse acting and much screaming and shouting. It is moot whether a parallel is to be drawn between the foreign powers of the time and the American post-war occupation.
(A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, Bakumatsu taiyôden)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw 110m
Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Cast: Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Synopsis:
In 1862 Tokyo, as the foreign quarter grows in unpopularity, a noted cut through is home to competing brothels, whose patrons include merchants, samurai and grifters of all kinds. One of the latter, a Scanarelle-like character, stays on, pretending that his friends will return to settle his bill. In due course he is made to stay on and work off his debt, which suits him fine with his failing health, and he proves the value of his wit and cunning on more than one occasion.
Review:
What passes for a frank enough comedy given its age, and not without style and verve, especially with the camera negotiating the ins and outs of the whorehouse and its district. It is, however, very Japanese, with some exceedingly coarse acting and much screaming and shouting. It is moot whether a parallel is to be drawn between the foreign powers of the time and the American post-war occupation.
(A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, Bakumatsu taiyôden)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw 110m
Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Cast: Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Synopsis:
In 1862 Tokyo, as the foreign quarter grows in unpopularity, a noted cut through is home to competing brothels, whose patrons include merchants, samurai and grifters of all kinds. One of the latter, a Scanarelle-like character, stays on, pretending that his friends will return to settle his bill. In due course he is made to stay on and work off his debt, which suits him fine with his failing health, and he proves the value of his wit and cunning on more than one occasion.
Review:
What passes for a frank enough comedy given its age, and not without style and verve, especially with the camera negotiating the ins and outs of the whorehouse and its district. It is, however, very Japanese, with some exceedingly coarse acting and much screaming and shouting. It is moot whether a parallel is to be drawn between the foreign powers of the time and the American post-war occupation.