No Silence, Please! Ichiro KATAOKA presents: Orochi

The Police Officer
  • Saturday, June 6, 14:00 Naxoshalle Kino
  • 雄呂血
  • Japan 1925, DVD, 74 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Director: Buntaro FUTAGAWA
  • Distribution: The Japan Foundation
  • Accompanied by cinema narrator (benshi) Ichiro KATAOKA and musical accompaniment by Günter A. Buchwald
  • Supporting film: TEKICHIGAI, Japan 1929, DVD, 4 min, Japanese with English subtitles

For the third time already, NIPPON CONNECTION welcomes renowned cinema narrator (benshi) Ichiro KATAOKA. With his unique performance, he will bring to life two classical Japanese silent films from an era when cinema narrators were as important to a film screening as the films themselves. Musical accompaniment by Günter A. Buchwald (www.stummfilmmusiker.de).

Heizaburo (Tsumasaburo BANDO) is an exemplary model of a samurai, until an altercation with a samurai of nobler birth marks the beginning of his inexorable social descent. Wild fight scenes announce the advent of the modern action star.


In cooperation with The Japan Foundation and kindly supported by the Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main

  

 

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