Rickshaw Man
| Rickshaw Man | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Hiroshi Inagaki |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Starring | Toshiro Mifune Hideko Takamine |
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Running time | 103 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Rickshaw Man (無法松の一生, Muhōmatsu no issho, "The Life of Wild Matsu") is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. It tells the story of Muhōmatsu, a rickshaw man, starring Toshiro Mifune who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman played by Hideko Takamine.
The film is a remake of a 1943 film of the same name.
Cast
- Toshiro Mifune - Matsugoro
- Hideko Takamine - Yoshiko Yoshioka
- Hiroshi Akutagawa - Capt. Kotaro Yoshioka
- Chishū Ryū - Shigezo Yuki
- Choko Iida - Otora (innkeeper)
- Haruo Tanaka - Kumakichi
- Jun Tatara - Theatre employee
- Kenji Kasahara - Toshio Yoshioka
- Dump Matsumoto - Young Toshio
- Nobuo Nakamura - Yoshiko's brother
- Ichirō Arishima - Medicine peddler
- Chieko Nakakita - Yoshiko's sister-in-law
- Seiji Miyaguchi - Fencing master
- Bokuzen Hidari
Awards
Director Hiroshi Inagaki won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival in 1958.
Manga
A manga based on Rickshaw Man was published by Shueisha and serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Jump.
External links
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