The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail

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虎の尾を踏む男達 The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail

Directed by	Akira Kurosawa
Produced by	Motohiko Ito
Written by	Akira Kurosawa
Starring	Susumu Fujita Denjiro Okochi Hanshiro Iwai
Music by	Tadashi Hattori
Distributed by	Toho Company Ltd.
Release date(s)	24 April 1952
Running time	58 / 60 min.
Language	Japanese
Budget	?
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The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail is the most common English translation of the Japanese film Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi (虎の尾を踏む男達), written and directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1945. It is based on the kabuki play Kanjinchō, which is in turn based on the Noh play Ataka.

The film stars Hanshiro Iwai, Susumu Fujita, Kenichi Enomoto, and Denjiro Okochi. It is in black-and-white and runs 58 or 60 minutes (depending on the version shown).

The film was initially banned by the occupying SCAP due to its portrayal of feudal values. It was later released after the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco in 1952.

[edit] Also known as

They Who Step on the Tail of the Tiger
They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail
Walkers on the Tiger's Tail

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Japanese Cinema
Films directed by Akira Kurosawa
1940s	Sanshiro Sugata \| The Most Beautiful \| Sanshiro Sugata Part II \| The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail \| Those Who Make Tomorrow \| No Regrets for Our Youth \| One Wonderful Sunday \| Drunken Angel \| The Quiet Duel \| Stray Dog
1950s	Scandal \| Rashomon \| The Idiot \| Ikiru \| Seven Samurai \| I Live in Fear \| Throne of Blood \| The Lower Depths \| The Hidden Fortress
1960s	The Bad Sleep Well \| Yojimbo \| Sanjuro \| High and Low \| Red Beard
1970s	Dodesukaden \| Dersu Uzala
1980s	Kagemusha \| Ran
1990s	Dreams \| Rhapsody in August \| Madadayo