Film

Shibukawa Bangorō

1922 · 1h 4m · Action · Adventure · Drama

IMDb

6.2

A film on the life of Shibukawa Bangorō, the founder of the Shibukawa-ryū school of jūjutsu. To paraphrase Satō Tadao’s blurb on the back cover of the video, this is an important film for three reasons. 1. it is an almost perfectly well preserved copy of one of only a few full-length movies still available of the first superstar in Japanese cinema history, the very famous Onoe Matsunosuke. 2. it uses a method that was common in the silent era, the dyeing/tinting of film to mark given moments of day (for ex., blue for night-time) or given situations (for ex., red for fire) – and even though most films that used this technique have been redeveloped in straight b&w, this one is available in its original form. 3. it is an early SFX (special effects) movie that uses the basic tools of the trade - a great action movie full of swordsmanship and monsters (bakemono).

Matsunosuke Onoe

Kohaku Arashi

Shôen Kataoka

Tomiyasu Ikeda

Sennosuke Nakamura

Utagoro Onoe

Kijaku Ôtani

En'ichirō Jitsukawa

Tamanokyoku Onoe

Hazaemon Bando

Kakumatsuro Arashi

Kamesaburo Arashi

• Kōkichi TsukiyamaDirector

Release date

May 5, 1922

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 4m

Genres

Action, Adventure, Drama