Gojokin (Goyokin)
Gojokin (Goyokin) Gojokin (Goyokin), aka: Tengoku Kara Kita Otoko-tachi, Genre: Jidaigeki, Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ruriko Asaoka, Directed by Hideo Gosha
Gojokin (Goyokin)
Aka: Tengoku Kara Kita Otoko-tachi
Land: Japan 1969
Release: USA
Genre: Jidaigeki
Lz: 124 Minuten
Bild: NTSC, 2.35:1, anamorph
Ton: Japanisch DD 2.0
Untertitel: Englisch
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ruriko Asaoka
Directed: Hideo Gosha
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Publisher: Tokyo Shock (USA)
Regioncode: 1
Product-ID: JCUS174 Availability: In stock |
26,95 EUR incl. 19% USt. zzgl. Versand |
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Synopsis
A young samurai returns to his province. On his way he encounters a small fishing village in the aftermath of a massacre. He sets out to take revenge. Starring Tatsuya Nakadai and the ace Tetsuro Tanba, GOYOKIN tells the story of a haunted samurai Magobei (Nakadai) returning to the site of an earlier massacre to seek revenge and calm for his soul. Set in dirty border towns and the snow swept plains of the north, a pretty place GOYOKIN ain't, the world Gosha has created looks good for only two things- killing and brooding- and Nakadai does plenty of both. Nakadai, always an intense actor, is particularly suited playing the doomed and haunted with his long gloomy face and piercing, yet empty eyes. Peering out through a thick beard Magobei differs from the typical Samurai anti hero- he emits regret rather than vengeance. The smeared skies and drizzle that frame Magobei on his journey are captured with great elan by Gosha and his Cameraman Kozo Okazaki, the characters making their way through carefully composed compositions that show the ugly side of nature. If all this sounds too sedate or depressing for you, don't despair. Magobeis journey ends with a spectacularly staged final reel fight with Tambara- playing the nasty and officious clan elder with whom Magobei had earlier helped massacre villagers, before his self imposed exile. To the pulsing sounds of a traditional Japanese drum troupe, adorned in devilish masks, Nakadai and Tambara duel amongst sweeping white dunes of snow. Like all good Samurai action the tension makes this fight so dynamic. Long periods of sizing each other up with blips of razor fast strikes and parries, the blood staining the virginal snow in crimson splashes. Never straying into the all out gore of Lone Wolf and Cub,
the duels of GOYOKIN are like the film itself- composed, subtle and possessed of some kind of muddy truth.