The read
It runs a compact 1h 27m.
Synopsis
When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima committed suicide. Going underground in the gambling world, perpetually hiding from the law, Masa eventually meets a young woman named Onaka, who looks exactly like Oshima. Tales having two look-alike heroines are a commonplace in Japanese period films, a plot affectation inherited from the kabuki theater. Based on a novel by Shin Hasegawa, Nakayama shichiri was already twice filmed in 1930, one version directed by Namio Ochiai, and from which less than 40 minutes survive, the other directed by Kyotaro Namiki. Both are silent films, preserved by the Makino film institute.
Ratings
4 audience votes
Key crew
- Kazuo IkehiroDirector
- Masao MatsumuraScreenplay
- Masao UnoScreenplay
- Setsuo TsukaharaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Raizō IchikawaMasakichi
- Tamao NakamuraOshima / Onaka
- Eijirō YanagiYasugoro
- Saburo DateCast
- Koichi OseTokunosuke
- Yukio HashiCast
- Nakajirō TomitaCast
- Sonosuke SawamuraCast
- Teruko ŌmiCast
- Hisako TakihanaCast
- Mitsugu TerashimaCast
- Shinobu ArakiCast