Kôchiyama Sôshun (1936)

Review: Kôchiyama Sôshun (1936)

Director: Sadao Yamanaka

Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, Shizue Kawarazaki, Setsuko Hara, Sensho Ichikawa,

Chōjūrō Kawarasaki
Chōjūrō Kawarasaki
Kan'emon Nakamura
Kan'emon Nakamura
Shizue Kawarazaki
Shizue Kawarazaki
Setsuko Hara
Setsuko Hara
Sensho Ichikawa
Sensho Ichikawa

Plot: A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

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The storytelling art of Sadao Yamanaka

The storytelling art of Sadao Yamanaka

Film history is full of lost movies and forgotten filmmakers, but the case of Sadao Yamanaka is one of the saddest; a brilliant director in 1930s Japan, he died young and all but three of his twenty-seven features are lost. The three that remain […]

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