Shin Heike Monogatari (film)
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Duration | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Running time 1h 48m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1955 Initial release September 21, 1955 (Japan) Screenplay Yoshikata Yoda, Masashige Narusawa, Hisakazu Tsuji Cast Narutoshi Hayashi (Taira Torodai), Raizô Ichikawa (Taira Kiyomori), Tatsuya Ishiguro (Fujiwara no Tokinobu), (Yasuko), Akitake Kôno (Heiroku), (Tokiko)Similar movies Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, Jidaigeki movies, Movies about Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shin Heike Monogatari (新・平家物語, lit. "New Tale of the Heike") is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is based on the Eiji Yoshikawa historical novel Shin Heike Monogatari. It is one of his two films in color, the other being Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (Yōkihi) of the same year.
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Critical reaction
Kevin B Lee found it a rather tentative attempt at color filmmaking and a self-conscious "prestige" picture, with Mizoguchi's usual themes present but at odds with the desire for spectacle and action of a samurai movie. Eugene Archer considered the plot was "subordinate to the decor".
Various critics have suggested that the film's setting in a politically unstable time and its concern with the transition of power reflect the situation of Japan in the 1950s, when the film was made.
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