Samurai no ko
A Modern Samurai Village
- Release Date
- February, 24th, 1963
- Running Time
- 94 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Monochrome
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Cinema Scope (1:2.35)
[ Directed by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- YAMANAKA Hisashi ── Original Story
- IMAMURA Shohei ── Screenplay
- INOUE Kan ── Cinematography
[ Production Company ]
NIKKATSU
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
NIKKATSU
[ Story ]
Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, delights the eyes with its ever-changing scenic beauty......the deep snows of winter, the sudden unfolding of the buds in spring, the fields and cities alive with vivid flowers in summer, and the scarlet tints of changing leaves in autumn. Even here, however, so blessed by the beauties of nature, life has its ups and downs, its joys and its sorrows.
Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had imagined is in a slum area called Samurai Village, a little Casbah, where people live from hand to mouth.
To make things worse, a group of vagrants descends on the already crowded ragpickers' village. The sight depresses and saddens little Yumi, but when her father gives up drinking, it makes up for everything in her eyes, and when he runs past liquor shops to avoid temptation, Yumi's laughter rings out merrily again.
【Quoted from the database of Nikkatsu Corporation】
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1963.6.2】
[ Contact (International) ]
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