The Detective Denshichi Case Files: The Beautiful Bat

1957 1h 46m JA

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Synopsis

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The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun family in Edo, and put it into Ryujin Maru. However, Tajima, who was the chief retainer of the shogunate, said that he was a member of the board, tetsugoro Funabashi, kumiyumi no Kami ichibei, and his son, masakichi, and others, and in the middle of the night, he killed all the members with poison in the night of the storm, threw Masayoshi, who was a fellow of the city, and masakichi, who escaped from the death of poison, into the sea and sank the boat to eliminate evidence.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Kōkichi Takada
Mitsuko Kusabue
Junzaburō Ban
Michiko Saga
Mitsugu Terashima
Ryuji Kita
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Jotaro Togami

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Seiichi Fukuda
Writers: Isamu Nagae
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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ERA

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69 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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CRAFT

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Part of the "Denshichi Torimonocho" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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CAST

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Kōkichi Takada and Mitsuko Kusabue and Junzaburō Ban carry the top of the cast.

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IMDB entry: tt0201481 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Seiichi Fukuda directs. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

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169 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Part of the "Denshichi Torimonocho" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Kōkichi Takada and Mitsuko Kusabue and Junzaburō Ban carry the top of the cast.
4IMDB entry: tt0201481 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
5Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 106 min · 1h 46m
Status: Released
Original language: JA
IMDB: The Detective Denshichi Case Files: The Beautiful Bat (1957)

Part of

Denshichi Torimonocho

Denshichi Torimonocho is a detective in the Edo period of Japan. He investigates strange and terrifying mysteries. The 13 movies in the series are all adapted from a novel.