A cinephile's guide to Japan | Sight & Sound
The Outsiders (Mori to Mizuumi no Matsuri, 1958) Japanâs sparsely inhabited northern island of Hokkaido is a land of rugged, majestic landscapes with an icy winter climate. Its frontier status has made it a natural setting for such man-against-the-elements action movies as the Kurosawa Akira-scripted Jakoman and Tetsu (1949), in which a heroic member of a fishing outpost rallies his co-workers against the gang of a one-eyed outlaw. Fukasaku Kinji remade the film in 1964 with Takakura Ken, the âClint Eastwood of Japanâ, replacing Mifune Toshiro as the titular Tetsu. Takakura...
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