Goyokin
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| Directed by | Hideo Gosha |
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| Cinematography | Kozo OkazakiLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. |
| Music by | Masaru SatoLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 124 minutesLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. |
| Template:Pluralize from text | Japan |
| Budget | ¥200 million[1] |
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Script error: No such module "Nihongo". is a 1969 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Hideo Gosha.[2] Set during the late Tokugawa period, the story follows a reclusive rōnin who is trying to atone for past transgressions.[3][4]
Plot
Magobei Wakizaka is a samurai for the Sabai clan. A nearby island, Sado, boasts a rich gold mine which provides plentiful riches[5] for the Tokugawa clan. When one of the gold ships sinks, the local fishermen recover some of the gold, intending to return it to the Tokugawa clan. However, Magobei's clan master, Rokugo Tatewaki, takes the gold and slaughters the fishermen so they cannot report the gold stolen. Magobei is appalled. He promises not to report Rokugo to the shogunate in exchange for Rokugo's promise to never do so again.
However, three years later, assassins sent by Rokugo's retainer, Kunai, come for Magobei, who is living in Edo. He realizes that Rokugo intends to steal more gold and slaughter more innocents. So Magobei returns to Sabai to face his former master. Rokugo hires another ronin, Samon Fujimaki, to kill Magobei, but as he is a spy for the Shogun, he joins forces with Magobei. Also, along the way, Magobei meets a young woman, Oriha, who survived the original slaughter. She and her brother, Rokuzo, join him on his way to Sabai.
At Sabai they learn that Rokugo intends to move a bonfire, which serves as a warning to passing ships against dangerous rocks, so that a gold ship will hit the rocks and sink. After recovering the gold, Rokugo intends to slaughter the peasants who help him in this endeavor. The combined efforts of Magobei, Samon, Oriha, and Rokuzo result in the correct bonfire being lit, the fake bonfire being put out, and the innocent peasants' lives being saved. Thus the gold-bearing ship evades the rocks. In a final showdown, amid falling snow, Magobei slays Rokugo, but is wounded by one of Rokugo's throwing knives. As the villagers and Oriha celebrate surviving their brush with death, Magobei leaves his sword at Rokugo's grave and wordlessly walks off into the snow.
Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Magobei Wakizaka
- Kinnosuke Nakamura as Samon Fujimaki
- Tetsurō Tamba as Rokugo Tatewaki, Magobei's childhood friend, brother-in-law, and clan master
- Yoko Tsukasa as Shino, Rokugo's sister and Magobei's wife
- Ruriko Asaoka as Oriha
- Isao Natsuyagi as Kunai
- Ben Hiura as Rokuzo
- Kunie Tanaka as Hirosuke
- Susumu Kurobe as Omura Sobei
- Kō Nishimura as Ryu Ichigaku
- Hisashi Igawa as Takeuchi
- Eijirō Tōno as a Chief retainer
Production
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Release
Goyokin was released as a roadshow theatrical release in Japan on 1 May 1969 where it was distributed by Toho.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The film received a general release in Japan on 17 May 1969.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
The film was released in the United States by Toho International with English subtitles in September 1969.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. It was reissued in the United States with an English-language dub and a running time of 85 minutes under the title The Steel Edge of Revenge in September 1974.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Reception
Goyokin won the awards for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction (Motoji Kojima) at the Mainichi Film Concours.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
See also
- Sabae Domain, of which GoyokinTemplate:'s "Sabai Domain" is a fictionalized version
References
Footnotes
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."1970 Movie Yearbook". Movie Yearbook (in Japanese). Jiji Press. 1970. p. 288.
{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."御用金". kotobank. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."御用金". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on October 12, 2022. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."御用金". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ This gold was called goyokin, roughly translated as "gold for official use", hence the title of the film.
Sources
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.
External links
- Goyōkin at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Review at Kung Fu Cinema
- Review at SaruDama
- Template:In lang Goyokin at the Japanese Movie Database
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