Hijosen no onna
Dragnet Girl
(c)1933/2022 Shochiku Co., Ltd.
(c)1933/2022 Shochiku Co., Ltd.
- Release Date
- April, 27th, 1933
- Running Time
- 120 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Monochrome
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Standard (1:1.37)
[ Directed by ]
[ Cast ]
- OKA Joji ── Joji
- TANAKA Kinuyo ── Tokiko
- MIZUKUBO Sumiko ── Kazuko
[ Staff ]
- James MAKI ── Based on a story by
- IKEDA Tadao ── Script
- SHIGEHARA Hideo ── Cinematography
- WAKITA Yonekazu ── Art Director
[ Production Company ]
Shochiku (Kamata)
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
SHOCHIKU
[ Story ]
When small-time gangster Joji falls for Kazuko, Joji's mistress Tokiko decides to scare her rival away, only to end up falling for her innocent charms herself. Inspired by Kazuko's example to turn over a new leaf, Tokiko convinces Joji to do the same, but things don't go as planned. Unfolding largely in boxing gyms and billiard halls and featuring characters attired in Western clobber, this atypical Ozu work is redolent of the gangster films that did gangbusters during the early days of the American talkie and exudes a modernist sensibility quite at odds with the refined restraint of his later films.
Taken from text originally written for National Film Archive of Japan screening program
Rearranged by FUJIWARA Masao
Translated by Adam Sutherland
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