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Mansaku Itami


 

Mansaku Itami (????; 1900-1946) was a Japanese film director. His samurai movies diverged from the norm in that they were not heroic epics of the sort which had by that time become formulaic, but rather satires that used the established symbols and iconography of the samurai culture to comment on both historical and modern society.

Filmography

  • Kyojin-den (1938)
  • Atarashiki Tsuchi (The New Earth), also known as Die Tochter des Samurai (Death of a Samurai) (1937)
  • Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man) (1936)
  • Chuji Uridasu (1935)
  • Kokushi Muso (1932)
  • Katakiuchi Ruten (1928)
  • Zoku Banka Jigoku: Dai Ippen (Elegy of Hell) (1928)