Muhomatsu no issho

19431943
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

148

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168,400

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Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy, Toshio, and is hired by the boy's parents.Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy, Toshio, and is hired by the boy's parents.Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy, Toshio, and is hired by the boy's parents.

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

148

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

168,400

61,072

Director
- Hiroshi Inagaki
Writers
- Mansaku Itami
- Shunsaku Iwashita(story)
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Tsumasaburô Bandô and Keiko Sonoi in Muhomatsu no issho (1943)

Tsumasaburô Bandô in Muhomatsu no issho (1943)

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Was censored by the Japanese government during the war, ten minutes were cut from the film. It received another censorship again after the war by the Occupation Forces, addition eight minutes were cut. The existing elements are unfortunately incomplete, the 18-minute cut footage were not survived.

Connections
Featured in Bantsuma - Bando Tsumasaburo no shogai (1988)

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9/10

Matsu the Untamed

A beguiling anecdote set during the Meiji Era and gracefully shot by one of Japan's leading cameramen, Kazuo Miyagawa.

Although described by Japanese film authority Alex Jacoby as "one of the finest and most moving films produced during the war years", it tends to be neglected in favour of it's veteran director's 1958 remake in colour and 'scope, dismissed by Donald Richie as "not nearly so good".

Although heavily censored and truncated after the war, at least it survives; unlike leading lady Kekio Sonoi who received a lethal dose of radiation at Hiroshima.

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