Geez... even just your description of the film was exciting! It sounds like a really rich story... the burning of the makoto flag --- powerful image just thinking about it (and I'm not one of those people who's really big into the sanctity of flags). Maybe if interest in the Shinsengumi continues to grow someone will look into restoring & subtitling it.
I know there are various ways of trying to bring films to the attention of conservation programs here in the US, but I don't know how much foreign film they're interested in (oh, they're interested, but the process is so labor & cost intensive that American film can often take precedence.) Any ideas on who in Japan is working on preservation of Japanese film that one might contact to suggest a film like this receiving attention? (In fact, it's something that would be good for a group... say like ours... to petition for preservation.)
phil (who now *really* wishes she could see this film)
Kevin Closson <
k_closson2001@...> wrote:
Chiezo Kataoka is in the lead role as Kondo in this
movie. At first glance you might think he was Mifune;
both had pretty long and distinguished acting careers.
Kinnosuke Nakamura is Okita as that website pointed
out, this movie is one of his earliest roles. Both
Kataoka and Nakamura had a bunch of roles where they
played the leading actors in the same movie in the
1950�s. Not too long after this movie they played in
a trilogy based on the story you know as �Sword of
Doom� with Kataoka playing the mad swordsman and
Nakamura playing the young avenging brother.
This Shinsengumi movie is one that definitely
deserves to be subtitled. I can�t give you too many
details, but based on memory the story starts out with
the Shinsengumi storming the Ikedeya Inn right away
with some really fast swordplay as I remember.
Eventually they deal with the Ito Kashitaro group
defection and the movie ends near the battle of Toba
and Fushimi. There are some love interests in the
story for both the main characters and I remember that
near the end the group burns the Makoto flag as a
symbolic ceremony of their group ending.
Kevin
--- spiritus_saitou wrote:
> Is that Toshiro Mifune in the foreground? Hey,
> Kevin!! What's it all about?
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