, also released as ''Muhomatsu, the Rickshaw Man'' or ''The Rikisha-Man'', is a 1958 color
Japanese film
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that ea ...
directed by
Hiroshi Inagaki
was a Japanese filmmaker best remembered for the Academy Award-winning '' Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto'', which was released in 1954.
Career
Born in Tokyo as the son of a shinpa actor, Inagaki appeared on stage in his childhood before joining t ...
. It is a remake of his own 1943 film. In the 1943 version
Tsumasaburo Bando played the role of Muhōmatsu. 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, 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
A rickshaw originally denoted a two- or three-wheeled passenger cart, now known as a pulled rickshaw, which is generally pulled by one person carrying one passenger. The first known use of the term was in 1879. Over time, cycle rickshaws (also ...
man played by
Toshiro Mifune
was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 150 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration (1948–1965) with Akira Kurosawa in such works as ''Rashomon'', ''Seven Samurai'', ''The Hidden Fortress'', ''Throne of Blood'', and '' ...
, who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman played by
Hideko Takamine
was a Japanese actress who began as a child actress and maintained her fame in a career that spanned 50 years. She is particularly known for her collaborations with directors Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita, with ''Twenty-Four Eyes'' (1954) ...
.
Cast
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Toshiro Mifune
was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 150 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration (1948–1965) with Akira Kurosawa in such works as ''Rashomon'', ''Seven Samurai'', ''The Hidden Fortress'', ''Throne of Blood'', and '' ...
- Matsugoro (Muhōmatsu, "Wild Matsu")
*
Hideko Takamine
was a Japanese actress who began as a child actress and maintained her fame in a career that spanned 50 years. She is particularly known for her collaborations with directors Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita, with ''Twenty-Four Eyes'' (1954) ...
- Yoshiko Yoshioka
*Hiroshi Akutagawa - Capt. Kotaro Yoshioka
*
Chishū Ryū
was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting 65 years, appeared in over 160 films and about 70 television productions.
Early life
Ryū was born in Tamamizu Village, Tamana County, a rural area of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu, the most south ...
- Shigezo Yuki
*
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*An alternative name for Chayote, a green vegetable of the gourd family
*Chokó languages, an alternative name for the Choco languages
* Chöko, a Tibeto-Burman language
*Choko (cup), a type of sake cup
* Choko (game)
*The name ...
- Otora (innkeeper)
*
Haruo Tanaka
was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades.
Career
Tanaka was born in Kyoto and quit school in order to become a film actor, joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925. He eventually moved up to seco ...
- Kumakichi
*Jun Tatara - Theatre employee
*Kenji Kasahara - Toshio Yoshioka
*Dump Matsumoto - Young Toshio
*
Nobuo Nakamura
was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's ''Ikiru'' (1952), and the h ...
- Yoshiko's brother
*Ichirō Arishima - Medicine peddler
*Chieko Nakakita - Yoshiko's sister-in-law
*
Seiji Miyaguchi
was a Japanese actor who appeared in films of Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Tadashi Imai and many others. He succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 71.
Distinctions
One of Kurosawa's iconic '' Seven Samurai'', Miyaguchi won the 19 ...
- Fencing master
*
Bokuzen Hidari
Awards
Director Hiroshi Inagaki won the
Golden Lion
The Golden Lion ( it, Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguishe ...
award at the
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...
in 1958.
Manga
A
manga
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based on Rickshaw Man was published by
Shueisha
(lit. "Gathering of Intellect Publishing Co., Ltd.") is a Japanese company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company was established in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The foll ...
and serialized in the ''
Weekly Shōnen Jump
is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of the series that run ...
''.
References
External links
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無法松の一生*
1958 films
Films directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Golden Lion winners
1970 manga
Films produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
Toho films
Remakes of Japanese films
Films set in the Meiji period
1950s Japanese films
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