, also released as ''Muhomatsu, the Rickshaw Man'' or ''The Rikisha-Man'', is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by

Hiroshi Inagaki was a Japanese filmmaker who worked on over 100 films in a career spanning over five decades. He is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed filmmakers in the history of Japanese cinema, having directed several ''jidaigeki'' epics s ...

. 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 minute long version of the original black-and-white film in 4K quality was released in Tokyo at the Tokyo International Film Festival, with a Blu-ray disc going on sale on 26 March 2021. Set in Japan during the late 19th century up to the early 20th century, it tells the story of Matsugoro, a rickshaw man played by

Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor and producer. The recipient of numerous awards and accolades over a lengthy career, he is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time. He often played hypermasculine characters and was noted for his commandin ...

, 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) a ...

Cast

- Matsugoro (Muhōmatsu, "Wild Matsu") *

- 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, Kumamoto, Tamana County, a rural area of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu ...

- Shigezo Yuki * Choko Iida - Otora (innkeeper) * Haruo Tanaka - Kumakichi *Jun Tatara - Theatre employee *Kenji Kasahara - Toshio Yoshioka *Kaoru 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 The Golden Lion () 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 regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguished prizes. In 1970, a ...

award at the

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the ...

in 1958.

Manga

manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

based on Rickshaw Man was published by

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and serialized in the ''

Weekly Shōnen Jump is a weekly Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump (magazine line), Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many Action (fiction), action scenes and a fair ...

''.

References

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* 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 era 1950s Japanese films Films scored by Ikuma Dan {{1950s-Japan-film-stub