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Шаблон:Nihongo is a 1969 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Hideo Gosha.[1] Set during the late Tokugawa period, the story follows a reclusive rōnin who is trying to atone for past transgressions.[2][3]

Plot

Magobei Wakizaka is a samurai for the Sabai clan. A nearby island, Sado, boasts a rich gold mine which provides plentiful riches[4] 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 Magobei eventually wins him over. 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, with Shino following.

Cast

Production

Goyokin was the first Japanese production shot in Panavision.Шаблон:Sfn Initially, Toshiro Mifune was cast in Kinnosuke Nakamura's role, but was replaced several weeks into filming.Шаблон:Sfn

Release

Goyokin was released as a roadshow theatrical release in Japan on 1 May 1969 where it was distributed by Toho.Шаблон:Sfn The film received a general release in Japan on 17 May 1969.Шаблон:Sfn

The film was released in the United States by Toho International with English subtitles in September 1969.Шаблон:Sfn 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.Шаблон:Sfn

Reception

Goyokin won the awards for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction (Motoji Kojima) at the Mainichi Film Concours.Шаблон:Sfn

See also

  • Sabae Domain, which Goyokin's "Sabai Domain" is a fictionalization of

References

Footnotes

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Sources

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External links

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  4. This gold was called goyokin, roughly translated as "gold for official use", hence the title of the film.