Director: Yoshida Kiju
Scriptwriter: Minoru Betsuyaku
Cinematographer: Genkichi Hasagawa
Editor:
Sound:
Music: Toshi Ichiyanagi
Art Setting: Akira Naitoh
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Yashuo Miyake, Yashuko Matsumura
Production:
Gendai Eigasha
ATG (Mariko Okada)
Distribution:
Sepia Production
5 passage du piver
75000 - Paris
France
Tel.: 0033 148078061
Fax.: 003 148072982
Year: 1973
35 mm, Black & White, 110 mn, OV Japanese with French Subtitles
This film portrays the character lkki Kita, a nationalist theoretician who had a large influence on his generation and was executed in 1936, after an aborted putsch by a fraction of the am1y favourable to the reconsolidation of the Emperor's powers. Beginning with the murder of an influential capitalist by one of Kita's disciples, ten years after his death, the film end with Kita's execution by a army squad. Between these two parts, Yoshida defines Kita's character in his links to the freedom of thought and his confrontation with the revolutionary act.
