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    Date: 11 Aug 2015 13:28:00
    The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) [Masters of Cinema #131] [Re-UP]

    Bakumatsu taiyô-den (1957)
    DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:50:48 | 6,25 Gb
    Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 320 Kbps | Subs: English
    Genre: Comedy | Masters of Cinema #131

    Director: Yûzô Kawashima
    Stars: Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida

    Voted one of the top five Japanese films ever made in a critic’s poll by Japan’s leading cinema publication Kinema junpô, yet barely known in the West, Yûzô Kawashima’s richly funny multi-levelled portrait of Japanese society Bakumatsu taiyô-den [A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era] is a glorious rediscovery.

    When man-about-town Saheiji (the beloved comedian Frankie Sakai) finds himself unable to pay for a bill at a brothel, he is forced to remain there to work off his debt. However he finds his wit and resourcefulness enable him to turn this situation to his advantage, as he interacts with a whole range of characters, from rivalling courtesans to political activists.

    Co-scripted by Shôhei Imamura (Vengeance Is Mine), it sharply and comically demonstrates the constants of human nature just as it delineates the tumultuous political times (the 1860s, leading up to the Meiji Restoration) in which they lived. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this classic in a new high-definition restoration.

    IMDB | Masters of Cinema


    The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) [Masters of Cinema #131] [Re-UP]

    Yûzô Kawashima is relatively unknown here in the west but in Japan his oeuvre is respected enough that just under a handful of his films made it into Kinema Junpô's infamous Top 100 list of the best Japanese films of all time, so you could say it's something of a travesty that his work hasn't found more attention abroad. Maybe it's because his films didn't possess the delicate sensibilities of the high-brow auteurs of the time, or maybe it was because he often satirised and parodied film genres and other elements of Japanese culture that have also passed under the radar of foreign arthouse crowds, who knows, but the good folk at Masters of Cinema are at least trying to rectify this oversight by becoming the first (to my knowledge) distributor in the West to release a Kawashima film on Blu-ray. Their choice is the most lauded of the director's work: Bakumatsu taiyô-den, which made it into the top five of that Kinema Junpô list.

    The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) [Masters of Cinema #131] [Re-UP]

    Bakumatsu taiyô-den (literal translation: Sun Legend in the Bakumatsu Era) is a sort of liberally expanded adaptation of the famous rakugo story: Inokori Saheiji (Saheiji Who Stayed Behind). If you're unfamiliar with the term then rakugo is a form of comic monologue usually performed by a lone storyteller on stage sitting down addressing the audience directly, and Inokori Saheiji portrays the antics of a grifter named Saheji who runs up a sizeable bill at a brothel with the intention of working off the debt by doing odd jobs around the Inn. In Kawashima's film (co written by Shohei Imamura) Saheji is played by comic actor Frankie Sakai, and the rakugo story is expanded upon by a number of intermingling plotlines that make up the comings and goings of the Sagami Inn, chief of which are the schemes and rivalries of the two highest-ranking oiran and a gang of Nationalist samurai who are plotting to blow up a nearby district being built to house local foreigners.

    The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) [Masters of Cinema #131] [Re-UP]

    The booklet that accompanies this release features an essay that informs us that Bakumatsu taiyô-den is chiefly a parody of a small sub-genre of Japanese cinema that was somewhat infamous but short-lived back in the 1950s, so as such I'm thinking many of the comedic touches are probably lost on a typical Western viewer, and perhaps in promoting the film by boasting about its high regard amongst Japanese film critics might be placing a weight of expectation that may be difficult to live up to for a Western audience.

    The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) [Masters of Cinema #131] [Re-UP]

    Don't get me wrong, Bakumatsu taiyô-den is a really fun film, but I think over here it plays more as a feel-good charmer rather than a riotous parody. It is a real charmer though, Kawashima's direction is extremely energetic: the camera never lets up as it frenetically switches between floors and zips across boardwalks as the prostitutes and patrons conduct their merry dance, and he deftly juggles a surprising number of intercrossing plotlines for a sub-2hr film, with the central story of Inokori Saheji being the gel that glues everything together. Frankie Sakai is spot-on in the main role, a happy-go-lucky grifter and jack of all trades who "milks the system" for all that its worth by paying off his debt through manual labour whilst generating a ridiculous amount of tips for the other services he can provide on the side. Before long he's pretty much running the brothel and it's a quaint kind of joy to watch him manipulate and manoeuvre all the different factions within the inn.

    The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) [Masters of Cinema #131] [Re-UP]

    There's isn't more that needs to be said about Bakumatsu taiyô-den; to really analyse the film and cover all its facets and subtleties you'll need someone who is considerably more knowledgeable about Japanese cinema and history than me, but I can say that even if you're a complete newcomer there's enough going on to offer a breezy 110minutes, and hey; If Yûzô Kawashima wasn't on your radar before watching this film, he certainly will be afterwards!
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    Special Features:
    - Gorgeous new Nikkatsu restoration of the film in its original aspect ratio
    - New and improved English subtitles
    - A booklet including a new and exclusive essay by critic/scholar Frederick Veith; Shôhei Imamura’s tribute to Yûzô Kawashima

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