The Birth of Japan
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Director Hiroshi Inagaki Music director Akira Ifukube Duration Country Japan | 7/10 IMDb Genre Adventure, Comedy, Drama Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Writer Ryuzo Kikushima, Toshio Yasumi Release date 1959 (1959) Cast Toshirō Mifune (Prince Yamato Takeru), Takashi Shimura (Elder Kumaso), Setsuko Hara (Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess), Kinuyo Tanaka (Princess Yamato) Similar movies Orochi - the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Three Treasures (日本誕生, Nippon Tanjō, lit. Birth of Japan) is a 1959 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. The film is based on the legends Kojiki and Nihon Shoki and the origins of Shinto. The film was highest grossing film of 1959 for Toho that year and the second highest grossing domestic production in Japan of the year.
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The three treasures 1959 epic film review
Plot
The Three Treasures retells the story of the Yamata no Orochi legend, and features the great adventure of Susanoo as he fights the legendary serpent Orochi, in order to save the maidens of a village in the newly-formed Japanese country.
Cast
Production
Stuart Galbraith IV described the film as a religious epic in the style of director Cecil B. DeMille that featured "virtually every star and bit player on the Toho lot".
Release
The Three Treasures was distributed theatrically in Japan by Toho on November 1, 1959. The film was Toho's most profitable film of the year and second highest grossing domestic film of 1959. The film was released in the United States by Toho International Company with English-language subtitles on December 20, 1960. This version of the film was cut to 112 minutes.
References
The Three Treasures WikipediaThe Birth of Japan IMDb The Birth of Japan themoviedb.org