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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (Japanese: 虎の尾を踏む男達, Hepburn: Tora no O o Fumu Otokotachi, alternatively They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail) is a 1945 Japanese period drama film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa, based on the kabuki play Kanjinchō, which is in turn based on the Noh play Ataka.

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
Original titleTora no O o Fumu Otokotachi
Japanese虎の尾を踏む男達
Directed byAkira Kurosawa
Screenplay byAkira Kurosawa
Based onKanjinchō
by Namiki Gohei III
Ataka
by Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu
Produced byMotohiko Itō
Starring
CinematographyTakeo Itô
Music byTadashi Hattori
Production
company
Toho Studios
Distributed byToho Company Ltd.
Release date
  • April 24, 1952 (1952-04-24)
Running time
59 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

It was initially banned by the occupying Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP), likely due to its portrayal of feudal values. Kurosawa blamed bureaucratic sabotage by the wartime Japanese censors, who also disapproved. The film was later released following the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco in 1952.[1]


Plot


In 1185, the Heike family fights against the Minamoto family. After a bloody naval battle in the Seto Inland Sea, Yoshitsune Minamoto defeats the enemy and the survivors commit suicide. When the triumphant Yoshitsune arrives in Kyoto, his brother, the Shogun Yoritomo, is uneasy and orders his men to arrest Yoshitsune. However, Yoshitsune escapes with six loyal samurai led by Benkei and they head to the country of his only friend Hidehira Fujiwara. Near the border, after crossing the forest disguised as monks, their porter discovers that they are Yoshitsune and the six samurais and advises that the fearful Kajiwara and his soldiers are waiting for them at the border to arrest them. Yoshitsune disguises as a porter and at the barrier, Benkei has to convince Kajiwara that they are six monks traveling to collect donations to repair the Todai temple in Nara.


Analysis


Critic David Conrad has said that the character of the porter, who does not exist in the original Noh or kabuki plays, prefigures Kurosawa's later commoner characters like the woodcutter in Rashomon and the villagers in Seven Samurai. "The presence of a low-class character among the high and mighty helps anchor the story in familiar ground, and the porter is free to express thoughts that proper samurai leave unsaid... Each of Kurosawa’s later jidaigeki, and many of his gendaigeki as well, would use characters of different castes and classes to achieve something similar to this dynamic. His stories play out in three-dimensional social worlds, allowing him to explore events and themes from multiple perspectives."[2]


Cast



References


  1. Kurosawa 1983, pp. 143–44
  2. Conrad, David A. (2022). Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan, pp39-40.

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На других языках


- [en] The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

[ru] Идущие по хвосту тигра

«Идущие по хвосту тигра»[1], в другом переводе «По следам тигра»[2] (яп. 虎の尾を踏む男達 Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi) — художественный фильм, снятый Акирой Куросавой по собственному сценарию в 1945 году. Основан на пьесе кабуки «Кандзинтё» («Список пожертвований для храма», 1840, автор — Намики Гохэй III), которая, в свою очередь, основана на пьесе но «Атака».



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