THE COMPLETE (EXISTING) FILMS OF SADAO YAMANAKA (PAL)
THE COMPLETE (EXISTING) FILMS OF SADAO YAMANAKA (PAL)
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The brief but prodigious career of Japanese director Sadao Yamanaka resulted in a catalog of work characterized by an elegant and unforced visual style, fluid editing, and a beautiful attention to naturalistic performances. Although he made 22 films over a six - year period (before dying of dysentery in a Japanese Imperial Army outpost in Manchuria at the age of 28), only three of them survive, collected here for the first time in the West. Tange Sazen: The Million Ry ô Pot is a gloriously comic adventure yarn as the titular one - eyed, one - armed swordsman becomes embroiled in the hunt for a missing pot that points the way to hidden treasure. In K ôchiyama S ôshun, a subversively humanistic adaptation of a classic kabuki play, a small but invaluable knife stolen from a samurai leads to a chain of an increasingly complex and troublesome set of circumstances. His last film, Humanity and Paper Balloons, is an unsparing ensemble drama set among the lowest rungs of Japanese society in the 18th century. Sadao Yamanaka---Japan---1935-1937---260

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