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Iso no Genta: Dakine no nagawakizashi

  • 1932
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6.5/10
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  • Director
    • Sadao Yamanaka
  • Writers
    • Shin Hasegawa
    • Sadao Yamanaka
  • Stars
    • Kanjûrô Arashi
    • Tsukie Matsuura
    • Jusaburô Ichikawa
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    15
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Sadao Yamanaka
    • Writers
      • Shin Hasegawa
      • Sadao Yamanaka
    • Stars
      • Kanjûrô Arashi
      • Tsukie Matsuura
      • Jusaburô Ichikawa
    • 1User review
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    Kanjûrô Arashi
    Kanjûrô Arashi
    • Iso no Genta
    Tsukie Matsuura
    • Oshimo
    Jusaburô Ichikawa
    • Isawa no Kantarô
    Ichitarô Kataoka
    • Mishima no Yakichi
    Aizô Tamashima
    • Yagiri no Den'emon
    • (as Aizo Tamashima)
    Heikuro Imanari
    • Chôjirô Miyakubo
    Keinosuke Tôyama
    • Teiichirô Odagiri
    Kitsuemon Arashi
    • Shichibei - Kantarô's uncle
    Rokurô Tachibana
    • Kumii - Monpei
    Kanzaburô Arashi
    • Yamaneko no Kyûzô
    Kazunosuke Hôrai
    • Gôzô Igarashi
    Hisao Kikumoto
    • Saburôta Honda
    Kunihiko Maeda
    • Dôgenzaka no Kichi
    Ryûzaburô Matumoto
    • Han'nya no Nisuke
    Mon'ya Onoe
    • Gohei - Genta's uncle
    • Director
      • Sadao Yamanaka
    • Writers
      • Shin Hasegawa
      • Sadao Yamanaka
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    A Fragment
    This was the first film of a film career that would last only six years and span 24 films, of which three survive. Known as "Sleeping with a Long Sword", only 72 seconds of the film remain. It's available on the DVD released by the Masters of Cinema of all existing Yamanakas.

    As explained by Tony Rayns, the reason why this short excerpt exists at all is thanks to the business model of then-Japanese film studios to sell short versions of recent hit films in the 9.5mm format. Similarly an even shorter fragment of 23 seconds exists of his 1935 film, "Kaito Shirozukin: Zempen" (1935), in English known, or perhaps more precisely, unknown as "The White Hood".

    The point here is not to make an informed analysis on what the film might have been about, or its merits, but merely to testify it exists. According to Alexander Jacoby in "A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors", the film was "admired for eschewing scenes of swordplay completely", and the fragment that we have testifies of this because it was exactly such a fight sequence that was sold for the home market, obviously among the highlights of the film. The action is fast, the editing intense (for example the fall of one of the swordsmen is not present in one, not two but three cuts), and one is left wondering what the complete film would have been like. Or dreaming of an old box in an abandoned shed somewhere in Japan to where, by accident, someone might arrive to and find what has been lost.

    Well, one can dream, right?
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    • Release date
      • February 4, 1932 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Languages
      • None
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Iso No Genta: Dakine No Nagadosu
    • Production companies
      • Arakan Production
      • Arashi Kanjurô Production
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    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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