sakamoto ryoma (also as secondary character)

[Bernardi-Buralli]

A quick PS to the great list below: Joan Mellen has a chapter on
Ryoma-centered films in her "The Waves at Genji's Door" ('76), and that
might be a useful intro to some of the different titles made. Although not
exactly about Sakamoto Ryoma himself, Shinoda Masahiro's film "Ansatsu" 1964
is a hard-to-forget film about Ryoma's times, in which he figures but not as
the main character (they're friends), an interestingly different way to
experience Ryoma's character in film.

Joanne Bernardi
U Rochester

> From: Roland Domenig <roland.domenig at univie.ac.at>
> Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:51:39 +0200
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: sakamoto ryoma
> 
> john,
> 
> there are several films about sakamoto ryoma. the best known are "ryoma
> ansatsu" by kuroki kazuo from 1974 and "ryoma o kitta otoko" directed by
> yamashita kosaku in 1987.
> 
> a lot of films about sakamoto ryoma were made before the war. the first one
> was the film 'sakamoto ryoma' made in 1912 by the production company yokota
> shokai. this was followed by:
> 
> sakamoto ryoma - makino shozo (1914)
> sakamoto ryoma - nakagawa shiro (1921)
> sakamoto ryoma - okubo tadamoto (1924)
> sakamoto ryoma - ozaki yunosuke (1927)
> ryoma ansatsu - fukagawa hisashi (1927)
> sakamoto ryoma - Kiyose Eijiro (1928)
> sakamoto ryoma - fuyushima taizo (1936)
> 
> there also was a film about ryoma's wife before ichikawa jun's film - in
> 1939 akiyama kosaku directed the film "sakamoto ryoma no tsuma"
> 
> also, in 1986 kawai yoshitaka directed a film called "bakumatsu seishun
> gurafiti ronin sakamoto ryoma".
> 
> 
> 
> roland domenig
> institute of east asian studies
> vienna university
> 
>