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Wikipedia article




, also released as 'Muhomatsu, the Rickshaw Man' or 'The Rikisha-Man', is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. It is a remake of his own 1943 film. In the 1943 version Tsumasaburo Bando played the role of Muhmatsu. 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,https://2020.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup/film/3310CLA04 Tokyo International Film Festival 2020, retrieved 24 March 2021 with a Blue Ray disk going on sale on 26 March 2021.

Set in the 1930s and 40s, it tells the story of Muhmatsu, a rickshaw man played by Toshiro Mifune, who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman played by Hideko Takamine.

Cast



*Toshiro Mifune - Matsugoro (Muhmatsu, "Wild Matsu")

*Hideko Takamine - Yoshiko Yoshioka

*Hiroshi Akutagawa - Capt. Kotaro Yoshioka

*Chish Ry - Shigezo Yuki

*Choko Iida - Otora (innkeeper)

*Haruo Tanaka - Kumakichi

*Jun Tatara - Theatre employee

*Kenji Kasahara - Toshio Yoshioka

*Dump Matsumoto - Young Toshio

*Nobuo Nakamura - Yoshiko's brother

*Ichir Arishima - Medicine peddler

*Chieko Nakakita - Yoshiko's sister-in-law

*Seiji Miyaguchi - Fencing master

*Bokuzen Hidari

Awards



Director Hiroshi Inagaki won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival in 1958.

Manga



A manga based on Rickshaw Man was published by Shueisha and serialized in the 'Weekly Shnen Jump'.

References




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