There were a couple of scenes in Ishii's first Abashiri Bangaichi... even a minor train-chase.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUg8lMsbaF4
Stefan
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> Datum: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:10:25 +0900
> Von: Faith Bach <faithbach at yahoo.co.jp>
> An: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Betreff: Re: Japanese train films
> High & Low is certainly the best!
> For specifically Nostalgic trains, nobody seems to have mentioned yet
> the wonderful long rattling trip to Tokyo from Kyoto in Mizoguchi's
> Gion Bayashi (1954), or the luminous final onboard scene in his Waga
> Koe wa Moenu (1949), which really is worth sitting thru the whole
> film for. Not to mention the two (count 'em!) absolutely classic
> "leaving-on-a-Meiji-period-train" scenes central to his Zangiku
> Monogatari (1939, but also in the other two less inspired versions,
> 1956 & 1963). And one can hardly leave out the end of Ozu's Ukigusa
> (1959) with Kyo Machiko & Ganjiro II in perhaps their best respective
> moments of cinema acting; nor the ditto of his 1957 Tokyo Boshoku
> with Yamada Isuzu at the train window...
> There is also a weird & wonderful "muri shinju" murder scene on and
> off a train platform in Naruse's 1960 Yoru no Nagare, quite a shocker.
> Better stop while I still can!
>
> Faith Bach
> On Sep 12, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Peter Grilli wrote:
>
> > One of the alltime greatest train sequences in the history of
> > movies is the ransom-money drop from the Shinkansen in Kurosawa's
> > Tengoku to Jigoku ("High & Low" ).
> >
> > For a station scene, I love the tense scene near the end of
> > Kurosawa's Nora Inu ("Stray Dog"), in which detective Mifune
> > Toshiro suspiciously eyes all the people in the waiting room of a
> > little suburban station, desperately trying to identify which one
> > is the killer.
> >
> > There are so many trains in Japanese movies one doesn't know where
> > to begin. Others have already mentioned many train scenes.
> > One rarely seen film that is full of trains is Tooi ippon no
> > michi ("The Far Road") -- actress Hidari Sachiko's 1977 debut film
> > as a director in a narrative about a stationmaster's family.
> > Speaking of Hidari, I recall train scenes in her 1955 film for
> > Tasaka Tomotaka Jochukko ("The Maid's Kid")
> >
> > And then there's Ichikawa's 1957 Mannin Densha ("A Full-Up Train")
> > and the unforgettable train scene at the beginning of the various
> > different film versions of Kawabata Yasunari's novel Yukiguni
> > ("Snow Country"), and the long journey in Yamada Yoji's Kazoku
> > ("Family").
> > Just about every Japanese film with the word "furusato" (hometown)
> > in the title has a train journey in it and a nostalgic journey home.
> >
> > Some other memorable Japanese train stations appear in Imamura
> > Shohei's 1955 Nishi-Ginza Eki-mae ("In Front of Nishiginza
> > Station") and Toyoda Shiro's 1955 Mugi-bue ("Grass Whistle")
> > Not exactly a station, but the final scenes of Shinoda Masahiro's
> > beautiful 1977 film Hanare-goze Orin ("Banished Orin" or "Melody in
> > Gray") show railroad track being laid in a steep mountain pass
> > (and I also recall several trains-in-the landscape scenes in that
> > film as Orin travels through Tsuruga and Ura-Nippon.
> > There's also a powerful train scene at the end of Kobayashi's great
> > (but rarely seen) 1968 film Nihon no seishun ("Youth of Japan" or
> > "Diary of a Tired Man").
> >
> > One odd sequence involving train stations is the party scene in
> > Kurosawa's 1993 film Maada-dayo ("Not Yet"), at which a drunken
> > partygoer takes it upon himself to recite the names of every train
> > station on the main train line from the north of Hokkaido to the
> > very south of Kagoshima.
> > And don't forget Kurosawa's script Runaway Train, which was finally
> > made into a movie of the same name in 1985, directed by Andrei
> > Konchalovsky and starring Jon Voight.
> >
> > It's hard to know where to stop listing train scenes in Japanese
> > films. There are many, many, many more.....!
> >
> > Peter Grilli
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian Ruh" <brianruh at yahoo.com>
> > To: "KineJapan" <kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:27 PM
> > Subject: Japanese train films
> >
> > > Since reading this article [1] in the Japan Times, I've been
> > thinking about Japanese trains. (I love things like subway cars and
> > trains. I think it stems from growing up in a place where there
> > wasn't anything like that.) Can anyone recommend any good Japanese
> > films that prominently feature trains, stations, etc.? (When I try
> > a Google search on the subject, I'm inundated with results for
> > Densha Otoko.)
> > >
> > > Any time period or genre would be great. (I particularly like the
> > train scenes in Shinkai Makoto's "5 Centimeters Per Second" even
> > though they're animated.) Thanks in advance!
> > >
> > > [1] http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080909jk.html
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > Brian's Essential Reading:
> > > http://www.oshiibook.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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