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Night Drum a.k.a. The Adulteress (夜の鼓, Yoru no tsuzumi) is a 1958 Japanese historical drama film directed by Tadashi Imai. It was written by Kaneto Shindo and Shinobu Hashimoto, based on the 1706 play Horikawa nami no tsuzumi by Monzaemon Chikamatsu.[2] Film historians regard Night Drum as one of director Imai's major works.[3][4][5]

Night Drum
Japanese	夜の鼓
Directed by	Tadashi Imai
Written by	Kaneto Shindo Shinobu Hashimoto Monzaemon Chikamatsu (play)
Produced by	Tengo Yamada
Starring	Rentarō Mikuni Ineko Arima Masayuki Mori
Cinematography	Shunichirō Nakao
Edited by	Akikazu Kōno
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production company	Gendai Production[1]
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	April 15, 1958 (1958-04-15) [1]
Running time	95 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Plot

Samurai Hikokuro returns home to his wife Tane after a full year at his shogun's residence in Edo. Rumours have it that Tane committed adultery with a musician in his absence, so the family clan summons for an interrogation. In a series of flashbacks, Tane is first cleared from the charges pressed against her, but after Hikokuro's sister renews the accusations, she finally admits her guilt. In her confession, she recounts how she had first escaped a rape attempt by the very samurai responsible for the rumours about her and, being drunk and in fear, had later spent the night with the musician. In compliance with the samurai honour, Tane is required to commit suicide, and her lover declared fair game. Although Hikokuro has forgiven his wife whom he still loves, he first kills her as she is unable to do so herself, and then the adulterer.

Cast

• Rentarō Mikuni as Hikokuro
• Ineko Arima as Tane
• Masayuki Mori as Miyaji, the musician
• Sumiko Hidaka
• Keiko Yukishiro
• Tomoko Naraoka
• Emiko Azuma
• Kikue Mōri
• Taiji Tonoyama
• Ichirō Sugai

References

External links

• Night Drum at IMDb
• Night Drum at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

На других языках

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- [en] Night Drum

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[ru] Барабан в ночи

«Барабан в ночи», в ином переводе — «Ночной барабан»[комм. 1] (яп. 夜の鼓, ёру-но цудзуми; англ. Night Drum) — японский чёрно-белый фильм-драма, поставленный режиссёром Тадаси Имаи и выпущенный в прокат в 1958 году. По мотивам трагической пьесы «Стучи, барабан, над волнами реки Хори» Мондзаэмона Тикамацу. Кинолента, первоначально называвшаяся «Прелюбодеяние»[1], по настоянию комитета по контролю и соблюдению норм нравственности в кино была переименована в «Барабан в ночи». Как видно из первоначального названия фильма в центре трагедии находится супружеская измена. В фильме скрыто критикуется феодальная мораль и обычаи, кодекс самурайской чести и система, согласно которой все правители со своими подчинёнными должны были через год уезжать жить в Эдо, что приводило к трагическим разрывам между мужьями и жёнами, распаду основы общества — семьи. Этой лентой Имаи положил начало реализму в жанре дзидайгэки.

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