, also released as ''Muhomatsu, the Rickshaw Man'' or ''The Rikisha-Man'', is a 1958 color

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directed by

Hiroshi Inagaki was a Japanese filmmaker best remembered for the Academy Award-winning '' Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto'', which was released in 1954. Career Born in Tokyo as the son of a shinpa actor, Inagaki appeared on stage in his childhood before joining ...

. It is a remake of his own 1943 film. In the 1943 version Tsumasaburo Bando played the role of Muhōmatsu. In October 2020, a digitally re-mastered 83 minutes long version of the original B/W film in 4K quality was released in Tokyo at the Tokyo International Film Festival, with a Blue Ray disk going on sale on 26 March 2021. Set in the 1930s and 40s, it tells the story of Muhōmatsu, a rickshaw man played by

Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 150 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration (1948–1965) with Akira Kurosawa in such works as '' Rashomon'', '' Seven Samurai'', '' The Hidden Fortress'', '' Throne of Blood'', a ...

, who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman played by Hideko Takamine.

Cast

- Matsugoro (Muhōmatsu, "Wild Matsu") * Hideko Takamine - Yoshiko Yoshioka *Hiroshi Akutagawa - Capt. Kotaro Yoshioka * Chishū Ryū - Shigezo Yuki *

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- Otora (innkeeper) * Haruo Tanaka - Kumakichi *Jun Tatara - Theatre employee *Kenji Kasahara - Toshio Yoshioka *Dump Matsumoto - Young Toshio * Nobuo Nakamura - Yoshiko's brother *Ichirō Arishima - Medicine peddler *Chieko Nakakita - Yoshiko's sister-in-law *

Seiji Miyaguchi was a Japanese actor who appeared in films of Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Tadashi Imai and many others. He succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 71. Distinctions One of Kurosawa's iconic '' Seven Samurai'', Miyaguchi won the ...

- Fencing master * Bokuzen Hidari

Awards

Director Hiroshi Inagaki won the Golden Lion award at the

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in 1958.

Manga

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based on Rickshaw Man was published by

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and serialized in the ''

Weekly Shōnen Jump is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the '' Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of the series that r ...

''.

References

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* 1958 films Films directed by Hiroshi Inagaki Golden Lion winners 1970 manga Films produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Toho films Remakes of Japanese films Films set in the Meiji period 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub