Nippon tanjô

19591959
3h 2m

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6.5/10

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Adventure Comedy Drama

A prince, framed for murder and starved for affection from his father, is sent on a quest.A prince, framed for murder and starved for affection from his father, is sent on a quest.A prince, framed for murder and starved for affection from his father, is sent on a quest.

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

310

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

95,055

8,671

Director
- Hiroshi Inagaki
Writers
- Ryûzô Kikushima
- Toshio Yasumi
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Trivia
This was, not surprisingly, Toho's highest grossing film of 1959 and the second highest grossing film in Japan overall.

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Prince Yamato Takeru: When he sent me to fight Kumaso, he only gave me a few men. And now I just came back, and he sends me to fight in the East! He loves my brothers more than me! He wants me to die!
[He sobs]

Alternate versions
A little over a year later, in 1960, Toho's subsidiary, Toho International, released this film in the United States in a subtitled version cut down to 112 minutes and titled "The Three Treasures."

Connections
Featured in Gojira to hiroin (2020)

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An epic three-hour long film about the birth of Japan.

The Japanese equivalent of 1956's The Ten Comandments. A lot of this features nomads wondering around in a desert on camels. Then there's Toshiro Mifune, who slays a hydra-esque dragon at the end. As usual, Toshiro Mifune is great. This is a great movie, with an excellent Ifukube score and Tsuburaya special effects but this is just too darn long and slow paced, it's really a chore to sit through. I still recommend it though.

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