大菩薩峠
/
大菩萨岭
/
Daibosatsu tôge
/
Le Passage du grand Bouddha I
director:
内田吐梦
playwright:
Katsuhito Inomata
/
Eizaburo Shiba
/
中里介山
actor:
片冈千惠藏
/
中村锦之助
/
Yumiko Hasegawa
genre:
Drama
region:
Japan
language:
Japanese
length: 1h 46m
release date: 1957-07-13
IMDb: tt0199443
大菩薩峠
overview
First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Tsuke Ryunosuke, a nihilistic swordmaster who doesnt hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good. Despite the authors explicit refusal, the series were later made into plays and movies several times.