Samurai Rebellion
(Jôi-uchi)
by Masaki Kobayashi
Japan
Script: Hashimoto Shinobu
Cinematographer: Kazuo Yamada
Editor: Hisashi Sagara
Music: Tôru Takemitsu
Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Gô Katô
Production: Toho Int.
Distribution:
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Year: 1967
35 mm, B & W, cinemascope, 128 min
OV Japanese with French Subtitles
FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival 1967.
In Japan, in 1725 during the Tokugawa era, clans are fighting around former samurai Sasahara. His son and daughter-in-law, and his concubine have been murdered. Grief-stricken Sasahara kidnaps his grand-son who is the issue of the plot, and runs to the outer edges of the state. He is revolted against the system he has submitted to his whole life and by rebelling he reassesses his lifestyle.
Samurai Rebellion was written in collaboration with Shinobu Hashimoto, the scrip writer of The Seven Samurai. Until 1944, the jidaï geki were costume dramas dedicated to the imperial cause. In Samurai Rebellion the samurai is shattered, just like Japan is mortified. He searches for his lost dignity. His violence comes from his lost illusions.
Samura Rebellion is considered as the final samurai film; two stars are facing each other, Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai..
