Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate
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| Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate | |
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 Japanese theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | Yuzo Kawashima |
| Written by | Yuzo Kawashima, Shōhei Imamura, Keiichi Tanaka |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
| Release date(s) | July 14, 1957[1] |
| Running time | 110 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (幕末太陽傳 or 幕末太陽伝 Bakumatsu taiyōden) is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese film comedy directed by Yuzo Kawashima with a screenplay by Kawashima, Shōhei Imamura and Keiichi Tanaka. It was voted the fifth best Japanese film of all time in a poll of 140 Japanese critics and filmmakers conducted by the magazine Kinema Junpo in 1999.[2]
[edit] Cast
- Frankie Sakai as Saheiji
- Yōko Minamida as Koharu
- Sachiko Hidari as Osome
- Yujiro Ishihara as Takasugi Shinsaku
- Nobuo Kaneko as Denbei, the owner of the Sagami-ya
- Masumi Okada as Kisuke
- Tomio Aoki as Chusuke
- Shōichi Ozawa as Kinzō, the book lender
- Izumi Ashizawa as Ohisa
- Akira Nishimura as Shinkō
- Taiji Tonoyama as Kurazō
- Hideaki Nitani as Shidō Monta (a.k.a. Inoue Kaoru)
- Akira Kobayashi as Kusaka Genzui
[edit] References
- ^ a b http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1957/cg002790.htm accessed 16 January 2009
- ^ "Hōga ōrutaimu besuto 100". My Cinema Theater. http://mycinemakan.fc2web.com/movie2/best100b.htm. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
[edit] External links
- Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate at the Internet Movie Database
- New remaster Ver(2011) http://www.nikkatsu.com/bakumatsu/english.html
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