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Buntarō Futagawa
was a pioneering Japanese film director and writer. So far, only two of his works have been released on DVD: ''Orochi'' ( ja, 雄呂血, ''The Serpent'', 1925) and the short film ''Backward Flow'' ( ja, 逆流, ''Gyakuryū'', 1924). As a writer, he used another name: Otsuma Shinozuka ( ja, 紫之塚 乙馬).''日本映画監督全集'' , Kinema Junpo, 1976, p.345. Life Futagawa was born Kichinosuke Takizawa on 18 June 1899, in Misaki, Shiba, Tokyo (present-day Mita, Minato, Tokyo), to a family of tea merchants. His younger brother by three years was film director Eisuke Takizawa. He studied business at Chuo University, but dropped out to join Taishō Katsuei in Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of T ... in April 1921. In the silent era, Futagawa worked wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orochi Film2
, or simply , is a legendary eight-headed and eight-tailed Japanese dragon/ serpent. Mythology Yamata no Orochi legends are originally recorded in two ancient texts about Japanese mythology and history. The 712 AD transcribes this dragon name as and the 720 AD writes it as . In both versions of the Orochi myth, the Shinto storm god Susanoo (or "Susa-no-O") is expelled from Heaven for tricking his sister Amaterasu, the sun goddess. After expulsion from Heaven, Susanoo encounters two near the head of the , now called the , in Izumo Province. They are weeping because they were forced to give the Orochi one of their daughters every year for seven years, and now they must sacrifice their eighth, , who Susanoo transforms into a for safekeeping. The tells the following version: The also describes Yamata no Orochi: "It had an eight-forked head and an eight-forked tail; its eyes were red, like the winter-cherry; and on its back firs and cypresses were growing. As it craw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
