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| KAZUO HASEGAWA (MAY 3~MAY 28) |
The late Japanese legendary actor, Kazuo Hasegawa will be featured showing some of his major films. Name of the characters are in italics. NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. |
YUKINOJO HENGE (EDITED VERSION) NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Dir: Teinosuke Kinugasa Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa credited as Chojiro Hayashi, Tokusaburo Arashi 1935/ 35mm/ BW/ 98min.
Story:Matsuuraya, a rich merchant in Nagasaki is tricked by an evil magistrate and Hiroumiya, another merchant into handling contraband. Matsuuraya’s assets are confiscated and he dies leaving an infant son behind. Hiroumiya becomes wealthy in Edo (Tokyo) where Yukinojo, an actor playing female roles is popular. He is no other than the son left behind secretly planning revenge to avenge the death of his father…
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YUKINOJO HENGE NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Story:Yukinojo, a popular Kabuki actor in Edo (Tokyo) secretly plans revenge on an evil magistrate who drove his father to death. The magistrate’s daughter is attracted to Yukinojo and the two meet, but Ohatsu, a woman thief discovers Yukinojo’s identity…
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TOJURO NO KOI NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Dir: Kajiro Yamamoto Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Takako Irie 1938/ 35mm/ BW/ 90 min.
Story: Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels the limits to his acting when he sees his rival troupe put on a new type of play featuring its star, Nakamura. He has the famous Chikamatsu write a new play but cannot get used to the character he is to play in it.
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SHINA NO YORU NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Dir: Osamu Fushimi / Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Li Koran (Shirley Yamaguchi) 1940/ 35mm/ BW/126 min.
Story:Hase, a seaman saves a woman who has been mistreated by the Japanese. Although hating the Japanese on account of being separated from her parents because of the “China Incident”, she slowly becomes attracted to Hase and the two make marriage vows…
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KINOU KIETA OTOKO NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Dir: Masahiro Makino Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Isuzu Yamada 1941/ 35mm/BW/89min.
Story: A landlord of a row of houses, known for his forceful nature, is murdered one night. Residents of the houses include a ronin (masterless or unemployed samurai) who is known to have been pressed for payment on a debt and a womanizer who previously criticized the deceased landlord. Both become chief suspects. Then another resident is murdered…
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ARU YO NO TONOSAMA NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Dir: Teinosuke Kinugasa Cast: Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Isuzu Yamada 1946/ 35mm/ BW/112min.
Story: A group led by a merchant who wish to obtain the rights to construct a railroad approach a government minister but the key to the rights in question lie with a brother to a former feudal lord who has been missing for some time…
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GENJI MONOGATARI NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Dir: Kozaburo Yoshimura Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Michiyo Kogure 1951/ 16mm/ BW/ 124 min.
Story:Kiritsubo attracts the interest of the Emperor and bears him a male offspring but dies when the boy is 5 years old. The prince grows up to be a handsome man and marries the daughter of an imperial minister but she turns out to be cold to him. He then builds an attraction to the woman his father loves…
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GENJI MONOGATARI UKIFUNE NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Story:Prince Kaoru meets Ukifune, an unrecognized daughter of the Emperor, and falls in love with her. She eventually comes to love the prince, but the Prince Niou, another prince, starts to court her as well. Ukifune must now decide between the two…
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ZENIGATA HEIJI NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Story: In feudal Japan, the dead body of a man is discovered in a river. Heiji, a policeman, discovers a fragment of a letter, which leads him to a painter. The painter, however, is murdered. Heiji discovers that both murdered men have a tattoo in common…
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JIGOKUMON NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Story:A revolt is staged while Kiyomori, the leader of the ruling Taira Clan, is away from the Japanese capital of Kyoto. Yasutada, of the Taira Clan, tries to protect the retired Emperor by disguising a lady of the court as the retired Emperor. Guarding the disguised court lady, Yasutada succeeds in scattering the enemy but falls in love with the court lady, who is married…
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CHIKAMATSU MONOGATARI NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Story: The brother of the beautiful wife to a merchant in Kyoto who makes calendars asks his sister for help in paying a debt. Unable to discuss this matter with anyone else, she approaches her husband’s assistant, who had been attracted to her. Because of this, the two are suspected of adultery, a crime punishable by death.
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TSUKIGATA HANPEITA NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Story: In pre-modern feudal Japan, a ronin (masterless or unemployed samurai) from Choshu is considered a traitor even within his circle of acquaintances for favoring the opening of Japan to the West while also being a part of a movement showing reverence to the Emperor with a desire to drive out all foreigners from Japan. He leisurely stays at a geisha’s house while lecturing leaders of the pro-west faction on the idea of having the Shogun return power to the Emperor.
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NICHIREN TO MOKO DAISHURAI NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Story:After returning home from a religious trip, Nichiren, a Buddhist, preaches that the BuddhistSchool of the Lotus Sutra is the only way to achieve true peace. However, he is banished. Moving to Kamakura, he continues preaching, while increasing the number of his followers. He then submits his “Establishment of the Legitimate Teaching for the Protection of the Country” to the Shogun but is banished to Izu where he is pardoned by the local feudal lord. A few years later, envoys of Kublai Khan of Mongolia arrive in Hakata demanding Japan acknowledge fealty to the Mongolian Empire…
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