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Photo above: Uchida Tomu (left) directing actor Tsukigata Ryūnosuke in a dramatic scene in A Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (Chiyari Fuji, 1955) – the very first Uchida film reviewed on this site, nearly four years ago. Note: I am…
Other Titles: Counterattack at the Prison Gate Fortress, Counterattack at the Prison Fortress (literal English titles) Production Company Toei Kyoto Scenarist Takaiwa Hajime Source Wilhelm Tell [William Tell] (1804 play) by Friedrich Schiller (uncredited) Planning Tamaki Jun’ichirō Cinematographer Yoshida Sadaji…
Production Company Asahi Kinema Scenarist Unknown Source Japanese newspaper article (page three) Cinematographer Hayakawa Kiyoshi Performers Tatsuta Shizue (Natsuko); Hasegawa Kiyoshi (unknown role); Hanazawa Yoshiyuki (unknown role); Uchida Tomu (bus passenger) Status Extant (presumably complete) Photography Black-and-white Music Composer unknown…
Other Titles: The Thousand-ryō Lion (literal English title) Production Company Toei Kyoto Scenarist Kessoku Shinji Source Yamate Kiichirō (“Edo Guntoki”: serialized story) Planning Sakamaki Tatsuo Production Manager Tokuda Yoneo Cinematographer Itō Takeo Art Direction Suzuki Takatoshi Music Yamada Eiichi Sound…
Other Titles: Disorder of the Kuroda Clan; The Kuroda Incident; Unknown Treachery (alternative English titles) Production Company Toei Kyoto Scenarist Takaiwa Hajime Source Hōjō Hideji (novel) Producer Okawa Hiroshi Planning Makino Mitsuo, Tamaki Junichirō Cinematographer Yoshida Sadaji Art Direction Suzuki…
Part I: Miyamoto Musashi; Alternate title: Zen and Sword (also used as series title); 宮本武蔵. Part II: Miyamoto Musashi II: Duel at Hannya Hill; Alternate Title: Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights; Original Title: Miyamoto Musashi: Hannyazaka no kettō: 宮本武蔵…
Alternate Titles: Horse Boy; Hooligans’ Highway (literal English title); La Route des malandrins (literal French title) Production Company Toei (Kyoto) Scenarist Yoda Yoshikata Original Draft (uncredited) Hirata Kenzo (see Notes on the Production below) Sources The Night Song of Yosaku…
Other possible titles: Honorable Blood, Kanto and the Sailor Ogawa, The Shipwreck of Kanto and the Sailor Ogawa, Special Service Ship Kanto and the Sailor Ogawa Production Company Kokkatsu Scenarist Unknown Cinematographer Tsuburaya Eiji Chief Assistant Director Igayama Masamitsu Performers…
Other titles: A Tale of Two Yakuza (alternate English title); Theater of Life: Hishakaku and Kiratsune (literal English title) Production Company Toei (Tokyo) Scenarist Tanada Gorō Source Ozaki Shirō (novel) Producer Okawa Hiroshi Planning Shundo Hiroji, Okubo Tadayuki, Yoshida Tatsu…
Production Company Nikkatsu (Tamagawa) Scenarists Yagi Yasutarō (adaptation); Kameya Gentoku (screenplay) Source Ozaki Shirō (novel) Cinematographer Yokota Tatsuyuki Performers (Note: actors credited in the cast list but who don’t appear in the extant version are noted with an asterisk.) Kosugi…