Mr. Thank You

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Mr. Thank You
Ken Uehara and Michiko Kuwano in Arigato-san (1936).jpg
Ken Uehara and Michiko Kuwano in Mr. Thank You
Directed byHiroshi Shimizu
Screenplay byHiroshi Shimizu
Based on"Arigato"
by Yasunari Kawabata
StarringKen Uehara
Michiko Kuwano
CinematographyIsamu Aoki
Music byKeizô Horiuchi
Release date
  • 27 February 1936 (1936-02-27)
[1]
Running time
76 minutes[1][2]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Mr. Thank You (有りがたうさん, Arigatō-san) is a 1936 Japanese comedy-drama film written and directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.[3][4] It is based on a short story by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Yasunari Kawabata,[5] and noted for its portrayal of depression-era Japan and its location shooting.[6][7]

Plot[]

A bus driver, nicknamed Mr. Thank You due to his expressions of gratitude to other road users who give way on the narrow mountain roads, drives from southern part of rural Izu to Shuzenji Station in northern Izu Peninsula, which was the nearest train station at the time. The film portrays the passengers and their diverse reasons for travel, and the people they meet on the way, including a group of migrant workers. In the end, Mr. Thank You considers marrying one of the passengers, a young woman destined to be sold to a brothel in Tokyo, to save her from prostitution, but he does not appear to do so.

Cast[]

  • Ken Uehara as Mr. Thank You
  • Michiko Kuwano as Woman in black collar
  • Mayumi Tsukiji as Girl being sold
  • Kaoru Futaba as Girl's mother
  • Setsuko Shinobu as Daughter of man who returned from Tokyo
  • Ryuji Ishiyama as Gentleman with beard

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Entry for Mr. Thank You at IMDb". Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  2. ^ Entry for Mr. Thank You at worldcat.org. OCLC 711794612. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Arigato-san". BFI.
  4. ^ "Mr. Thank You (1936) - The Criterion Collection". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  5. ^ Koresky, Michael. "Eclipse Series 15: Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  6. ^ Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.
  7. ^ Richie, Donald (2005). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (Revised ed.). Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International. ISBN 978-4-7700-2995-9.

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