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1935 Japanese Comedy

Oldie Movie DVD Digitally Mastered from Archival Prints

 

《丹下左膳-百萬兩之壺》

"Sazen Tange & the Pot worth a Million Ryo"

Starring: 大河內付次郎, 宗春太郎, 喜代三 (Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo)

Some IMDb user wrote this after viewing the movie: "To say that I appreciate this film would be an enormous understatement- I love it." Every second is infused with comedy and humanity, artfully drawn with minimal but effective camera movement, unforgettable music, and pitch perfect character acting. The story is simple, a retainer has a pot which theoretically has a map on it telling the place of a large fortune. The pot is comically sold to some junk collectors before the retainer realizes it's worth, and a search for it throws the both "giri" and "ninjo" (a Japanese story telling tradition of how fealty and natural desires combat for one's dedication) into the wind. Do whatever you can to see this gem of a film from one of the world's all too unheralded Directors, Yamanaka Sadao highly recommended to fans of Japanese film, early thirties American comedies, and the art of socially pointed humor in general.

Sadao Yamanaka's story is a bit tragic. He was a superb young director who was conscripted out to fight in the war of aggression in Manchuria, where he died at the age of 28 of dysentery. By that age, in a seven year period this wunderkind directed 24 films. Unfortunately only three remain intact. This one, which is a jidaigeki comedy, Humanity and Paper Balloons, which is a humanist drama available on DVD and Kochiyama soshun, which is apparently a pessimistic humanist kabuki adaptation that hardly anyone in the west has seen.

It's a very likable film. There's a pot that a daimyo lord owns that's an heirloom, it's not a very good pot though, just a cheap thing with a monkey painted on. As a cheeky jibe he gives it away to his brother-in-law (who is still quite well off but likes to have a moan because he's not filthy rich and is only a second son). Our pot-giver realises that he's given away this pot though and that it has a treasure map hidden on it that leads to a spot where a million ryo fortune has been buried (a huge sum of money). Unfortunately the wife of the pot receiver has given the pot away to the junk collector by the time all this is discovered...

 

Digital Repaired High Quality DVD 

Japanese Language, 92 min.

with removable Chinese & Japanese Sub-titles

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DVD will come in original plastic box with paper cover insert & factory sealed.

Packing cover may differ from the image shown due to different distribution sources.

 

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