Samba garasu sandaiki
Tokyo Omnibus
- Release Date
- October, 30th, 1959
- Running Time
- 102 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- -
- Screening Format
- -
[ Directed by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- SHIINA Toshio ── Screenplay
- MIYATA Yoshio ── Screenplay
- UBUKATA Toshio ── Cinematography
[ Production Company ]
SHOCHIKU
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
SHOCHIKU
[ Story ]
"Samba Garasu," meaning three-some, has always been a Shochiku tradition. In this film, celebrating the 3,000th production of the Shochiku Company, three generations of the "Samba Garasu" tradition have been brought together in a gay modern day story. The initial three-some, dating back to the silent days, is composed of Shin Saburi, Shuji Sano and Ken Uehara. The second, Keiji Sada, Teiji Takahashi and Minoru Oki. The latest and youngest are Toyozo Yamamoto, Kazuya Kosaka and Shinichiro Mikami who all appear in this unusual gala production.
The story tells of Saburi, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son (Yamamoto) is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect.
Sano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder (Takahashi), employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl.
The agency head (Uehara) has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Sada is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend (Oki) a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home (Kosaka) and by a fishmonger's son (Mikami).
Finally, after many complications and near-disasters, the pieces fall into place and their dreams are all realized.
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1960 3.1】
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