Pirates Magistrate

1957 1h 31m JA

Crime

Synopsis

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As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was thought that the opium was coming from Nagasaki, but it turns out that it was reaching Edo through smuggling purchased from foreign ships. However, Nagasaki magistrate Toyama Saemon-no-jo is powerless to do anything about it, and his only hope is his own son, Kinshiro... In order to eradicate the great conspiracy lurking in the inner palace of Edo and the drug scourge, Toyama Kin-san disguises himself as a pirate and boards a smuggling ship, sailing across the Kuroshio Current to the port of Nagasaki in this thrilling and dashing tale of a villain who slays evil.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Chiezo Kataoka
Kenji Usuda
Eijirō Kataoka
Koji Arima
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Shinobu Araki
Eitarō Shindō
Kunio Kaga

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Kinnosuke Fukada
Writers: Hajime Takaiwa, Tatsuro Jinde
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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CINEMA

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Part of the "Tōyama no Kin-san Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Nakaba Takahashi. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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CAST

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Chiezo Kataoka and Kenji Usuda and Eijirō Kataoka carry the top of the cast.

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The take

Kinnosuke Fukada directs. Nakaba Takahashi scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

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169 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Part of the "Tōyama no Kin-san Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Original score by Nakaba Takahashi. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Chiezo Kataoka and Kenji Usuda and Eijirō Kataoka carry the top of the cast.