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Information
- Year
- 1928
- Runtime
- 31 min.
- Director
- Masahiro Makino
- Genre
- Short
- Rating *
- 7.3
- Votes *
- 19
- Checks
- 17
- Favs
- 1
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 5.9% (1:17)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:0
Top comments
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monty
Sozenji Baba is a masterpiece made in the period between the films in the Roningai series which overflows with the passion of the cinematic expression of Masahiro Makino’s younger days.
Regrettably,
a complete version has not been preserved. The most popular theme for jidaigeki made in pre-war Japan was vengeance. The majority of these works are admirable for the way they use vengeance as a means to show the virtues of loyalty and filial piety, and within these there are also works, particularly from the Showa era, which criticize the inhuman nature of vengeance. Masahiro Makino’s Sozenji Baba is representative of this type of work. Based upon a simple vengeance story, it is a drama by Itaro Yamagami showing the human suffering of a man with enemies. Yamagami was the writer of the Roningai series, a pioneer who revolutionized jidaigeki by applying a modern, social and humanist view to what had until that point been a genre that inherited feudalistic morals at face value.
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