Rickshaw Man

Rickshaw Man
Rickshaw Man
	Japanese movie poster
Directed by	Hiroshi Inagaki
Screenplay by	Hiroshi Inagaki ; Mansaku Itami
Story by	Shunsaku Iwashita
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Starring	Toshiro Mifune; Hideko Takamine;
Cinematography	Kazuo Yamada
Edited by	Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Music by	Ikuma Dan
Release date	22 April 1958 (Japan); 3 May 1960 (U.S.);
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Rickshaw Man (無法松の一生, Muhōmatsu no isshō, "The Life of Wild Matsu"), also released as Muhomatsu, the Rickshaw Man or The Rikisha-Man, is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki.^[1] It is a remake of his own 1943 film. In the 1943 version Tsumasaburo Bando played the role of Muhōmatsu.^[2] In October 2020, a digitally re-mastered 83 minutes long version of the original B/W film in 4K quality was released in Tokyo at the Tokyo International Film Festival,^[3] with a Blue Ray disk going on sale on 26 March 2021.

Set in the 1930s and 40s, it tells the story of Muhōmatsu, a rickshaw man played by Toshiro Mifune, who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman played by Hideko Takamine.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Cast[]

Toshiro Mifune - Matsugoro (Muhōmatsu, "Wild Matsu")
Hideko Takamine - Yoshiko Yoshioka
Hiroshi Akutagawa - Capt. Kotaro Yoshioka
Chishū Ryū - Shigezo Yuki
Choko Iida - Otora (innkeeper)
Haruo Tanaka - Kumakichi
Jun Tatara - Theatre employee
Kenji Kasahara - Toshio Yoshioka
Dump Matsumoto - Young Toshio
Nobuo Nakamura - Yoshiko's brother
Ichirō Arishima - Medicine peddler
Chieko Nakakita - Yoshiko's sister-in-law
Seiji Miyaguchi - Fencing master
Bokuzen Hidari

Awards[]

Director Hiroshi Inagaki won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival in 1958.

Manga[]

A manga based on Rickshaw Man was published by Shueisha and serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Jump.

References[]

^ Monaco, James (February 14, 1991). The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books. ISBN 9780399516047 – via Google Books.
^ "無法松の一生". Agency for Cultural Affairs 映画情報システム. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
^ https://2020.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup/film/3310CLA04 Tokyo International Film Festival 2020, retrieved 24 March 2021
^ Berra, John (January 9, 2012). Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2. Intellect Books. ISBN 9781841505985 – via Google Books.
^ Stalker, Nancy K. (August 14, 2018). Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520962835 – via Google Books.
^ Guides, Rough (May 1, 2008). The Rough Guide to Film. Rough Guides UK. ISBN 9781848361256 – via Google Books.

External links[]

(in Japanese) 無法松の一生
Rickshaw Man at IMDb

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[1] Monaco, James (February 14, 1991). The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books. ISBN 9780399516047 – via Google Books.

[2] "無法松の一生". Agency for Cultural Affairs 映画情報システム. Retrieved 2 November 2019.

[3] ttps://2020.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup/film/3310CLA04 Tokyo International Film Festival 2020, retrieved 24 March 2021

[4] Berra, John (January 9, 2012). Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2. Intellect Books. ISBN 9781841505985 – via Google Books.

[5] Stalker, Nancy K. (August 14, 2018). Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520962835 – via Google Books.

[6] Guides, Rough (May 1, 2008). The Rough Guide to Film. Rough Guides UK. ISBN 9781848361256 – via Google Books.

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