Sadao Yamanaka Collection (3 Films) - 2-DVD Set ( Tange Sazen yowa: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo / Kôchiyama Sôshun / Ninjô kami fûsen ) ( Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo / Priest of Darkness / Humanity and Paper Balloons )

Sadao Yamanaka Collection (3 Films) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Tange Sazen yowa: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo / Kôchiyama Sôshun / Ninjô kami fûsen
Alternate Title: Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo / Priest of Darkness / Humanity and Paper Balloons
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
260 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1935 - 1937 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Sadao Yamanaka

Written By:
Shintarô Mimura
Mokuami Kawatake

Actors:
Denjirô Ôkôchi ..... Sazen Tange
Kiyozo ..... Ofuji
Kunitarô Sawamura ..... Genzaburo Yagyu
Reisaburô Yamamoto ..... Yokichi
Minoru Takase ..... Shigeju
Sôji Kiyokawa ..... Shichibei
Ranko Hanai ..... Ogino
Chôjûrô Kawarasaki ..... Kochiyama Soshun
Kan'emon Nakamura ..... Kaneko Ichinojo
Shizue Yamagishi ..... Oshizu
Setsuko Hara ..... Onami
Chôemon Bandô ..... Naozamurai
Jôji Ichikawa ..... Kenta
Rakutarô Ichikawa ..... Aya-chan
Sensho Ichikawa ..... Ushimatsu
Shoji Ichikawa
Shotaro Ichikawa
Heikuro Imanari
Atsuko Iryû
Daisuke Katô
Sôji Kiyokawa
Fumie Miyoshi
Monzô Nakamura
Shingorô Nakamura
Hiroshi Sawamura
Kojiro Sawamura
Kikunosuke Segawa
Sukezo Sukedakaya
Minoru Takase
Yônosuke Toba
Shimajirô Yamazaki
Chôjûrô Kawarasaki ..... Matajuro Unno, a samurai
Kan'emon Nakamura ..... Shinza, the barber
Tsuruzo Nakamura ..... Landlord
Chôemon Bandô ..... Otaki, Matajuro's wife
Sukezo Sukedakaya ..... Isuke - Yatagoro henchman
Emitaro Ichikawa
Noboru Kiritachi
Shizue Yamagishi
Toshio Arashi
Kôzaburô Nakamura
Chôbee Yamazaki

Synopsis:

The brief but prodigious career of Japanese director Sadao Yamanaka resulted in a catalogue of work characterised by an elegant and unforced visual style, fluid editing, and a beautiful attention to naturalistic performances. Although he made 22 films over a six-year period (before dying of dysentery in a Japanese Imperial Army outpost in Manchuria at the age of 28), only three of them survive, collected here for the first time in the West. Tange Sazen: The Million Ryô Pot is a gloriously comic adventure yarn as the titular one-eyed, one-armed swordsman becomes embroiled in the hunt for a missing pot that points the way to hidden treasure. In Kôchiyama Sôshun, a subversively humanistic adaptation of a classic kabuki play, a small but invaluable knife stolen from a samurai leads to a chain of an increasingly complex and troublesome set of circumstances. His last film, Humanity and Paper Balloons, is an unsparing ensemble drama set among the lowest rungs of Japanese society in the 18th century. The Masters of Cinema Series is delighted to present these treasures of world cinema in a long-awaited two-disc DVD set, including rarely-seen fragments of two other lost Yamanaka films.

Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
The Yagyu family's elder son sends an old and cheap looking pot to his young brother, ignoring that the pot contains a map showing where it was hidden a treasure of a million ryo. He tries to recover it but his brother's wife has sold it to some junk dealers. Finally the pot ends up in Yasu's hands, a kid whose father was killed although Tange Sazen was supposed to protect him from in his way to home, so Tange Sazen will look after Yasu.

Priest of Darkness (1936)
K?chiyama S?shun is a 1936 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Sadao Yamanaka. It is an entry in the jidaigeki film genre. The original idea for K?chiyama S?shun came from a Kabuki play by Kawatake Mokuami, known as Kochiyama to naozamurai. In the play, the two title characters are petty criminals from the Ueno district of Edo. Yamanaka changed some of the characters from the play to be more good-natured, in keeping with his film aesthetic. He also modernized the Kabuki play by casting actors from the Zenshin-za Group, which aimed to bring modern acting techniques to traditional Kabuki plays.

Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
The story is set in the 18th century, and dramatically depicts the struggles and schemes of Unno, a ronin, or masterless samurai in feudal Japan, as well as those of his similarly impoverished neighbours.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 07 October, 2013.