#Kanjuro Arashi

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Poster for One Hundred Gamblers: Chivalrous Path (博徒百人 任侠道), 1969, directed by Takashi Nomura (野村孝) and starring:

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) Hideki Takahashi (高桥英树) Jo Shishido (宍戸錠)

Tatsuya Fuji (藤竜也)

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Rokuro Taniuchi, 'Where the Kurama Tengu comes out'

There's a shadow that looks like a Kurama Tengu. It's always around midday, in the afternoon. It is the shadow of a lantern that appears at the wall.

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"Kurama Tengu" is the name given by the main character, a swordsman who is a The Imperial Warrior in Jiro Osaragi's series of historical novels set at the end of the Edo period (1603-1868). A representative work of popular fiction, 47 long and short stories were published in total until 1965. It has been adapted to film and television many times, especially the 46 films starring Kanjuro Arashi, which have defined the image of Kurama Tengu.

谷内六郎「くらま天狗の出るところ」

くらま天狗みたいの影が いつもおひる頃から午後のひととき その塀のところに出る燈籠の影です。

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Joe Shishido in A Colt Is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967) Cast: Joe Shishido, Jerry Fujio, Chitose Kobayashi, Ryotaro Suji, Kanjuro Arashi, Shoki Fukae, Eimei Esumi, Jun Hongo, Akio Miyabe, Toyoko Takechi, Takamaru Sasaki, Asao Uchida, Zeko Nakamura, Kojiro Kusanagi Barge Captain: Zenji Yamada. Screenplay: Hideichi Nagahara, Nobuo Yamada, based on a novel by Shenji Fujiwara. Cinematography: Shigeyoshi Mine. Production design: Toshiyuki Matsui. Film editing: Akira Suzuki. Music: Harumi Ibe. I didn't see any Colts in A Colt Is My Passport, but there are several rifles, pistols, and shotguns, some dynamite, and the protagonist carries a Beretta, so I suspect the title is a bit of poetic license designed to make the Japanese gangster into the equivalent of the gunfighter of the American Wild West. Harumi Ibe's music score, with its guitar, harmonica, and whistler evoking Ennio Morricone's scores for Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns, seems designed for the same effect. But why court comparisons? The Japanese gangster movie is its own well-defined genre, and Joe Shishido is its superstar. In A Colt Is My Passport he's Shuji, a hit man hired to off a crooked businessman, which he does with cool efficiency. Unfortunately, the guys who hired him immediately turn against Shuji, so he's soon on the run, along with his sidekick, Shun, played by the Anglo-Japanese actor and singer Jerry Fujio. (Fujio even gets to croon a ballad at one point in the movie, slowing down the otherwise non-stop action.) The movie is filled with James Bond-like gadgets and car chases: At one point, Shuji and Sun find themselves kidnapped and thrown into the back seat of a car that they have had rigged with an extra braking system, apparently just in case they find themselves in such a predicament. Engaging the brake causes the car to skid, throwing the bad guys into the windshield and knocking them out. And so it goes until Shun is captured and beaten to a pulp, whereupon Shuji bargains with the bad guys, giving himself up to them so Shun and the pretty motel waitress Mina (Chitose Kobayashi), who has helped them, can escape. Apparently the bad guys trust Shuji enough that he has time to work on a way of defeating them: He rigs up some booby traps for the showdown they have arranged on a landfill, and the movie ends with Shuji staggering away from the carnage. It's all great fun in that peculiarly heartless and mindless way that such thrillers have.

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Näyttelijä Arashi Kanjuro näytelmässä Yoshitsune sembonzakura (Tuhat kirsikkapuuta), Kunisada, 1829, Finnish National Gallery

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Arashi Kanjuro as Giheiji in Mud

Utagawa Toyokuni III (Japanese, 1786-1864) (Artist)

Omiya Heihachi (Publisher)

ca. 1821-1841 (late Edo)

the Walters Art Museum

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R.I.P. Jo Shishido.

Poster for One Hundred Gamblers: Chivalrous Path (Bakuto Hyakunin Ninkyodo, 博徒百人 任侠道), 1969, directed by Takashi Nomura (野村孝) and starring:

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) Hideki Takahashi (高桥英树) Jo Shishido (宍戸錠) Kanjuro Arashi (嵐寛寿郎) Michitaro Mizushima (水島道太郎) Ryoji Hayama (葉山良二) Tadao Nakamaru (中丸忠雄) Tatsuya Fuji (藤竜也)

This film has never been released on home video.

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Näyttelijä Arashi Kanjuro Kazusa no Sukehein roolissa, Kunisada, Finnish National Gallery

http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+841%3A44

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Näyttelijä Arashi Kanjuro Kazusa no Sukehein roolissa, Kunisada, Finnish National Gallery

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Näyttelijä Arashi Kanjuro Kazusa no Sukehein roolissa, Kunisada, Finnish National Gallery

http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+841%3A44

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Näyttelijä Arashi Kanjuro Kazusa no Sukehein roolissa, Kunisada, Finnish National Gallery

http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+841%3A44

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Näyttelijä Arashi Kanjuro näytelmässä Yoshitsune sembonzakura (Tuhat kirsikkapuuta), Kunisada, 1829, Finnish National Gallery

http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+841%3A72

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Näyttelijä Arashi Kanjuro näytelmässä Yoshitsune sembonzakura (Tuhat kirsikkapuuta), Kunisada, 1829, Finnish National Gallery

http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+841%3A72

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Näyttelijä Arashi Kanjuro Kazusa no Sukehein roolissa, Kunisada, Finnish National Gallery

http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+841%3A44