Tange Sazen: The Million Ryô Pot (1935)

Review: Tange Sazen: The Million Ryô Pot (1935)

Director: Sadao Yamanaka

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura, Minoru Takase, Sōji Kiyokawa,

Denjirō Ōkōchi
Denjirō Ōkōchi
Kiyozo
Kiyozo
Kunitaro Sawamura
Kunitaro Sawamura
Minoru Takase
Minoru Takase
Sōji Kiyokawa
Sōji Kiyokawa

Plot: A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it.

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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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