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{{Short description|1960 Japanese film}}
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{{Infobox film
|name = Hero of the Red-Light District
|name = Hero of the Red-Light District
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|caption =
|caption =
|director = [[Tomu Uchida]]
|director = [[Tomu Uchida]]
|producer =
|producer = Jun'ichirō Tamaki
|writer = [[Yoshikata Yoda]]
|writer = [[Yoshikata Yoda]]
|starring = {{ubl|[[Chiezō Kataoka]]|Yaeko Mizutani|[[Isao Kimura]]|[[Minoru Chiaki]]|Shinobu Chihara|Kogiku Hanayagi}}
|starring = {{ubl|[[Chiezō Kataoka]]|[[Yaeko Mizutani]]|[[Isao Kimura]]|[[Minoru Chiaki]]|Shinobu Chihara}}
|music = Toshio Nakamura
|music = Toshio Nakamura
|cinematography =
|cinematography = Sadaji Yoshida
|editing =
|editing = Shintarō Miyamoto
|distributor =
|studio = [[Toei Company]]
|released = 1960
|distributor = Toei Company
|released = {{Film date|1960|9|4|Japan|df=y|ref1=<ref name="Kinenote">{{cite web|url=http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=23177 |title=妖刀物語 花の吉原百人斬り |website=Kinenote |language=ja |access-date=12 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="jmdb">{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1960/cj004150.htm |title=妖刀物語 花の吉原百人斬り |website=Japanese Movie Database |language=ja |access-date=12 July 2023}}</ref>}}
|runtime = 1 hour and 45 minutes
|runtime = 109 minutes
|country = Japan
|country = Japan
|language = Japanese
|language = Japanese
|budget =
}}
}}
{{nihongo|'''''Hero of the Red-Light District'''''|妖刀物語 花の吉原百人斬り|Yoto monogatari: Hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin giri}}, also titled '''''Yoshiwara: The Pleasure Quarter''''' or '''''Killing in Yoshiwara''''', is a 1960 Japanese [[jidaigeki]] and [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] by [[Tomu Uchida]].<ref name="Kinenote" /><ref name="jmdb" />

The '''''Hero of the Red-Light District''''', (also titled '''''Yoshiwara: The Pleasure Quarter''''' ('''''Yoto Monogatari: Hana No Yoshiwara Hyakunin Giri''''') or '''''Killing in Yoshiwara''''') is a 1960 film by [[Tomu Uchida]].<ref name="Credits">{{cite web|title=Full Cast & Crew|url=https://www.moviefone.com/movie/killing-in-yoshiwara/20021863/credits/|publisher=Moviefone|accessdate=1 May 2017}}</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==
A successful provincial merchant cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring [[birthmark]]. Even the [[courtesans]] in [[Yoshiwara]] refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, treats him with tenderness.<ref name="Plot Summary">{{cite web|title=Plot Summary|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187119/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=1 May 2017}}</ref> The disfigured businessman finds love with Tamarazu.<ref name="Killing in Yoshiwara (1960)">{{cite web|title=Killing in Yoshiwara (1960)|url=https://www.moviefone.com/movie/killing-in-yoshiwara/20021863/main/|publisher=Moviefone|accessdate=1 May 2017}}</ref>
Jirozaemon, a successful textile merchant from the provinces, cannot find a wife because of his disfiguring birthmark. Even the [[courtesans]] in [[Yoshiwara]] refuse to entertain him. When he meets enslaved street prostitute Tamatsuru, who treats him with kindness, he falls in love with her, intent to free and marry her, which leads to his downfall.


==Review==
==Cast==
* [[Chiezō Kataoka]] as Jirozaemon
"The film that led [[David Shipman (writer)|David Shipman]] to declare Uchida “the equal of Mizoguchi and Kinugasa,” Killing in Yoshiwara ranks with Uchida's finest postwar work. This dark melodrama's sudden and violent end in a shower of cherry blossoms is one of the most impressive scenes in Uchida's canon."<ref name="Japan Society">{{cite web|title=Japan Society|url=http://www.japansociety.org/event/killing-in-yoshiwara-aka-heroes-of-the-red-light-district|accessdate=1 May 2017}}</ref>
* [[Yaeko Mizutani]] as Tamatsuru (credited as Yoshie Mizutani)
* [[Isao Kimura]] as Einojo
* [[Minoru Chiaki]] as Josuke
* Shinobu Chihara as Yaegaki

==Legacy==
In his ''Story of Cinema'', [[David Shipman (writer)|David Shipman]] declared Uchida "the equal of Mizoguchi and Kinugasa" for this film, while film historian Alexander Jacoby rated it as "ultimately one of his [Uchiwara's] most conventional" works and "academic".<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Uchida, Tomu |magazine=Senses of Cinema |last=Jacoby |first=Alexander |date=July 2005 |issue=36 |access-date=12 July 2023 |url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2005/great-directors/uchida/}}</ref>

''Hero of the Red-Light District'' was screened in the [[Museum of Modern Art]] as part of a retrospective on Tomu Uchida in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/2400 |title=Yoto monogatari: Hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin giri (Killing in Yoshiwara). 1960. Directed by Tomu Uchida |website=Museum of Modern Art |access-date=12 July 2023}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0187119}}


{{Tomu Uchida}}
{{Tomu Uchida}}


[[Category:1960 drama films]]
[[Category:1960 drama films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Tomu Uchida]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Yoshikata Yoda]]
[[Category:Jidaigeki films]]
[[Category:Toei Company films]]
[[Category:1960s Japanese films]]
[[Category:Japanese drama films]]




Latest revision as of 17:14, 12 July 2023

Hero of the Red-Light District
Directed byTomu Uchida
Written byYoshikata Yoda
Produced byJun'ichirō Tamaki
Starring
CinematographySadaji Yoshida
Edited byShintarō Miyamoto
Music byToshio Nakamura
Production
company
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • 4 September 1960 (1960-09-04) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time
109 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Hero of the Red-Light District (妖刀物語 花の吉原百人斬り, Yoto monogatari: Hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin giri), also titled Yoshiwara: The Pleasure Quarter or Killing in Yoshiwara, is a 1960 Japanese jidaigeki and drama film by Tomu Uchida.[1][2]

Plot

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Jirozaemon, a successful textile merchant from the provinces, cannot find a wife because of his disfiguring birthmark. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him. When he meets enslaved street prostitute Tamatsuru, who treats him with kindness, he falls in love with her, intent to free and marry her, which leads to his downfall.

Cast

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Legacy

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In his Story of Cinema, David Shipman declared Uchida "the equal of Mizoguchi and Kinugasa" for this film, while film historian Alexander Jacoby rated it as "ultimately one of his [Uchiwara's] most conventional" works and "academic".[3]

Hero of the Red-Light District was screened in the Museum of Modern Art as part of a retrospective on Tomu Uchida in 2016.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "妖刀物語 花の吉原百人斬り". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "妖刀物語 花の吉原百人斬り". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  3. ^ Jacoby, Alexander (July 2005). "Uchida, Tomu". Senses of Cinema. No. 36. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Yoto monogatari: Hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin giri (Killing in Yoshiwara). 1960. Directed by Tomu Uchida". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
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