Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (血槍富士, Chiyari Fuji) is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Tomu Uchida.

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Japanese movie poster showing an actor Chiezō Kataoka and Mount Fuji at background
Directed byTomu Uchida
Written byKintaro Inoue (idea)
Shintarō Mimura (writer)
Fuji Yahiro (writer)
Production
company
Release date
  • February 27, 1955 (1955-02-27)[1]
Running time
94 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

It is a "gruelling cruel tale" from the Edo period.[2]

Daisuke Katō won the 1956 Blue Ribbon Award for best supporting actor.[3]

Plot

The samurai Sakawa Kojūrō is on the road to Edo with his two servants Genta and Genpachi. Kojūrō is a kindly master, but his character totally changes when he consumes alcohol. On the road, they encounter many different people: a traveling singer with her child, a father taking his daughter Otane to be sold into prostitution, a pilgrim, a policeman searching for a notorious thief, and Tōzaburō, the suspicious man the officer has his eyes on. Genpachi, the spear carrier, is also followed by an orphaned boy named Jirō who wants to be a samurai. When Kojūrō and Genpachi inadvertently capture the thief—who was the pilgrim in disguise—Kojūrō is disgusted when the authorities praise him and not his servant, even though Genpachi probably contributed more. He is also upset that he does not have the money to save Otane from being sold. In the end it is Tōzaburō who saves Otane, using the money he saved to rescue his own daughter, but decided to use for Otane after finding out his daughter had died. Depressed, Kojūrō takes Genta out drinking, despite the protests of the latter. When a band of boisterous samurai complain of Kojūrō drinking with someone of lower birth, Kojūrō gets upset. The samurai pull their swords and kill both the servant and his master. Genpachi arrives too late, but in a fury kills all the samurai with the spear. Authorities do not charge him with a crime, so he heads home carrying the ashes of Kojūrō and Genta. When Jirō tries to follow him, he shoos him off, telling him never to become a samurai.

Cast
  • Chiezō Kataoka as Genpachi
  • Ryunosuke Tsukigata as Tōzaburō
  • Chizuru Kitagawa as the Shamisen player
  • Yuriko Tashiro as Otane
  • Daisuke Katō as Genta
  • Eitarō Shindō as the pilgrim
  • Toranosuke Ogawa
  • Kyoji Sugi
  • Yoshio Yoshida
  • Kunio Kaga
  • Teruo Shimada (credited as Eijirō Kataoka) as Sakawa Kojūrō
  • Chie Ueki as the Shamisen player's daughter
  • Motoharu Ueki as Jirō
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References
  1. jmdb entry Retrieved on 5 February 2009. (in Japanese)
  2. A Few Early Films Starring Chiezo Kataoka accessed 8 February 2009
  3. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047937/awards accessed 8 February 2009
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