| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Directors suite |
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Director's suite.
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| Summary |
A revival of Gorky's classic proletarian drama about human flotsam living in a Moscow dosshouse. The film remains faithful to the text while transplanting the play into Tokyo of the Edo period, a setting which is deliberately ironic because it is a period that is usually romanticised by the Japanese. The film focuses on a slum tenement where prostitutes, actors, gamblers and thieves bewail their lot in life. Osugi, the landlady, fights with her sister, Okayo, over the man they both desire, the thief Sutekichi |
| Notes |
Based on the play by Maxim Gorky |
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Special features include: selected commentary by Monash University cinema academic Freda Freiberg ; image gallery |
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Eastern Eye: MMA2587 |
| Credits |
Director, Akira Kurosawa ; screenplay, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni |
| Cast |
Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyoko Kagawa |
| Notes |
Originally released as a motion picture Japan : Toho Company, c1957 |
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DVD, Region 4, PAL |
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Soundtrack in Japanese, with optional subtitles available in English |
| Subject |
Feature films -- Japan.
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Motion pictures, Japanese.
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Poor -- Japan -- History -- Drama.
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Sibling rivalry -- Japan -- Drama.
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069579 -- Drama.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001612
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Video recordings.
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Drama.
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| Author |
Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936.
Na dne. English.
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Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
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黑沢明, 1910-1998.
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Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.
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三船敏郎, 1920-1997.
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Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996.
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小国英夫, 1904-1996.
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Yamada, Isuzu, 1917-2012.
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山田五十鈴, 1917-2012.
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Madman Entertainment Australia (Firm)
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Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
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東宝株式会社.
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