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27 October 1985 (USA)
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DVD Review: Hideo Gosha's Onimasa - A Japanese Godfather
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DVD Review: Hideo Gosha's Onimasa - A Japanese Godfather
(From Twitch. 13 January 2010, 5:17 AM, PST)
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Movie for Masako Natsume fans
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Cast
(in credits order) | Tatsuya Nakadai | ... | Masagoro Kiryuin - Onimasa |
 | Masako Natsume | ... | Matsue Kiryuin |
 | Shima Iwashita | ... | Uta Kiryuin |
| Tetsurô Tanba | ... | Uichi Suda, The Big Boss |
| Kaori Tagasugi | ... | Hanako Kiryuin |
| Akiko Kana | ... | Tsuru |
| Emi Shindo | ... | Emiwaka, 2nd Mistress |
| Akiko Nakamura | ... | Botan, 3rd Mistress |
| Mari Natsuki | ... | Akio, Opponent's Mistress |
| Nobuko Sendô | ... | Matsue as a girl |
| Mikio Narita | ... | Tokubei Tsujihara |
| Tatsuo Umemiya | ... | Masaru Yamane |
| Eitarô Ozawa | ... | Genichiro Tanabe |
| Isao Natsuyagi | ... | Kanematsu |
| Hideo Murota | ... | Sagara |
| Ryôhei Uchida | ... | Hirazo Suenaga |
| Kei Yamamoto | ... | Kyosuke Tanabe |
| Katsuhiko Watabiki | ... | Jiro Mikazuki |
| Naoya Makoto | ... | Tetsuo Sudo |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Isamu Ago | ||
| Kinzoh Sakura | ||
| Masahiko Tanimura | ... | Zenshichi Shirai |
 | Kôji Yakusho | ||
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| Hideo Gosha | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Hideo Gosha | ||
| Tomiko Miyao | novel | |
| Kôji Takada | ||
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| Shigeru Okada | .... | producer | |
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| Mitsuaki Kanno | |||
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| Fujiro Morita | |||
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| Isamu Ichida | |||
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| Yoshinobu Nishioka | |||
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- AnimEigo (2010) (USA) (DVD)
- Filmtribe Moving Pictures (1985) (USA) (subtitled)
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"Kiryûin Hanako no shôgai" - Japan (original title)
"Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather" - USA (DVD title)
"The Life of Hanako Kiryuin" - International (English title) (literal title)
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"Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather" - USA (DVD title)
"The Life of Hanako Kiryuin" - International (English title) (literal title)
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This movie is somewhat famous amongst Masako Natsume fans, and more than half the value of seeing this movie is in seeing beautiful Masako Natsume in her prime before she met her untimely death.
Based on a novel by Sumiko Miyao, this movie tells the story of 50 years of human tapestry that is woven my the people of Masagoro Kiryuin's (Onimasa) clan seen from the vantage point of Matsue (Masako Natsume) who were adopted into this family when she was 12. Matsue witnesses the entire history of this family to its very end.
The movie's character Onimasa is actually a former yakuza, and he's a merchant selling dried goods but his old habits die hard, and him and his clan is almost a clan of yakuza. But the focus is more on the women of this yakuza family, set in late Taisho to early Showa period of Japan in Kochi prefecture. The entire meaning of this movie is vague, since Hanako Kiryuin who is the title of this movie (in Japan) is just a spoiled girl, and does almost nothing.
There are many good looking actresses in this movie asides from Masako Natsume, such as Emi Shindo, and Akiko Nakamura. A very young Nobuko Sendo makes her debut in the role of young Matsue.
The one liner Mastue says towards the end of the movie "Nametara ikanzeyo !!" (Don't underestimate us !) was a famous one liner that remains in the annals of Japanese movie history.
To be honest, the only reason to watch this film for me was to watch the beautiful Masako Natsume in action. She is that great in this movie. Thank you to director Hideo Gosha for changing the cast from Shinobu Ootake to Masako Natsume at the last minute.