"Cart Song" (at the USSR box office - "Song of the Cart", 荷 車 の н : niguruma no uta ; The Cart Song ) is a Japanese black and white drama film created by one of the most prominent figures of "independent" Japanese the movie was directed by Satsuo Yamamoto and released in 1959 . The film is based on the story of Tomoe Yamashiro.
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| Japanese 荷 車 の 歌 ( niguruma no uta ) (at the box office of the USSR - "Song of the Cart") | |
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Satsuo Yamamoto |
| Producer | Saburo Tatano |
| Author script | Yoshikata Yoda |
| In the main cast | Yuko Motizuki , Rentaro Mikuni , Sachiko hidari |
| Operator | Minoru Maeda |
| Composer | Hikaru Hayashi |
| Film company | All Japan Rural Film Association |
| Duration | 145 minutes |
| A country |  Japan |
| Tongue | Japanese |
| Year | 1959 |
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Story
The action begins to develop during the Meiji period (from 1894 ) in one of the mountain villages of central Japan ( Hiroshima Prefecture ). The life story of one couple has been shown for more than fifty years (through 1945 ), during a period of profound changes in Japanese society.
A lot of adversity fell on the share of the worker of Seki, serving in the mansion of the nobleman. One day she meets Moity, a rural cabman who makes a living by transporting mail on a cart. Seki falls in love with Moichi and marries him. But in old age, having accumulated a small capital, Moity makes a lover, a lazy woman of about fifty, and humiliates her wife by the presence of another woman in the house.
The film shows the difficult life of the peasants, the humiliating position of Japanese women and how desperate poor people are organized to fight for their rights.
Cast
- Yuko Mochizuki - Seki
- Rantaro Mikuni - Moichi
- Sachiko Hidari - Otoyo, the first daughter
- Tokie Hidari - Otoyo in childhood
- Yoshio Inaba - Fujitaro
- Teruko Kishi - mother
- Mitsuko Mito - Natsuno
- Tomoko Naraoka - Komura
- Ko Nishimura - Natsuno
- Eitaro Ozawa - Nanashiki's Master
- Kumeko Urabe - Hina
Premieres
- - The national premiere of the film took place on February 11, 1959 [1] .
- - the film was shown at the Soviet film distribution in February 1962 [comm. 1] [2] .
Awards and nominations
Mainity Film Award (1960)
- Best Director Award - Satsuo Yamamoto [3] .
Kinema Jumpo Magazine Award (1960)
- Nomination for the award for the best film of 1959 (according to the results of voting 4th place) [4] .
Comments
- ↑ The film was shown at the Soviet box office in February 1962 under the title "Song of the Cart", r / u Goskino USSR No. 1159/61 - published: "Annotated catalog of films of the current fund: Feature Films", M .: "Art" -1963, S. 238.
Notes
- ↑ Japanese Movie Database (JMDb) (Japanese)
- ↑ List of foreign films at the box office of the USSR from 1955 to 1991. at the forum of the cinema club "Phoenix" (Russian)
- ↑ Niguruma no uta (1959) on IMDb-Awards
- ↑ Kinema Junpo Top YBY on Rinkworks.com
Links
- Song of the Cart on the Internet Movie Database