★★★★☆ Having brought the relatively unknown (to Western audiences) Bakumatsu Taiyô-den (The Sun Legend in the Last Days of the Shogunate, 1957) to Blu-ray last month, the Masters of Cinema series now provide another prime example of classic Japanese cinema unseen in the UK. In September 1938, at the tender age of 28, acclaimed director Sadao Yamanaka tragically died whilst on military service, leaving more than 20 films from all-too-brief career. Sadly, most of those were lost during the war years, but the trio that remain have been excellently remastered for The Complete (Existing) Films of Sadao Yamanaka Collection.
A contemporary and friend of Yasujiro Ozu, Yamanaka worked exclusively in the 'jidaigeki' tradition; creating period dramas set under the rule of the shogunate. Under the tutelage of Daisuke Ito, this genre was used to slip under the gaze of censors and allowed leftists to make films shedding light on political and social issues of the...
A contemporary and friend of Yasujiro Ozu, Yamanaka worked exclusively in the 'jidaigeki' tradition; creating period dramas set under the rule of the shogunate. Under the tutelage of Daisuke Ito, this genre was used to slip under the gaze of censors and allowed leftists to make films shedding light on political and social issues of the...
- 5/21/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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