Three bank robbers on the run from the police hide out in a remote mountain lodge high up in the snowy Japanese Alps.Three bank robbers on the run from the police hide out in a remote mountain lodge high up in the snowy Japanese Alps.Three bank robbers on the run from the police hide out in a remote mountain lodge high up in the snowy Japanese Alps.
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- TriviaThis was the first feature for both actor Toshirô Mifune and composer Akira Ifukube.
- Quotes
Haruko's Grandfather: Don't make a fuss about it. The mighty mountain will punish the bad.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015)
- SoundtracksOh! Susanna
(uncredited)
Written by Stephen Foster
[The song played on the record player to which Haruko asks Honda to dance]
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Three criminals on the run after a bank heist head for the snowy Japanese Alps and hole up in a remote mountain cabin with an elderly man, his granddaughter, and a local climber. The screenplay was co-written by Akira Kurosawa and stars two of soon-to-be famous director's regulars, Toshiro Mifune (one of his first films), and Takashi Shimura, as a young volatile crook and his older, more pensive gang leader respectively. The story is an uneven mix of harsh and maudlin but the cast is very good and the B/W mountain cinematography is excellent. The music is by Akira Ifukube (who 6 years later would write the iconic Godzilla March) and his choice of incorporating the classic 'Americana' tunes of Stephan Foster in a gritty Japanese crime melodrama seems odd but hearing the quaint tune of 'My Old Kentucky Home' while the three criminals trudge through the snow to shelter high above the tree-line is effective (but slightly surreal).
- jamesrupert2014
- Dec 6, 2022
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- По ту сторону Серебряного хребта
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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