Rickshaw Man

Rickshaw Man
Directed by	Hiroshi Inagaki
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Starring	Toshiro Mifune Hideko Takamine
Release dates	22 April 1958 (1958-04-22) (Japan) 3 May 1960 (1960-05-03) (U.S.)
Running time	103 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Rickshaw Man (無法松の一生, Muhōmatsu no issho, "The Life of Wild Matsu") is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. It tells the story of Muhōmatsu, a rickshaw man, starring Toshiro Mifune who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman played by Hideko Takamine.

The film is a remake of a 1943 film of the same name.

Cast

Toshiro Mifune - Matsugoro
Hideko Takamine - Yoshiko Yoshioka
Hiroshi Akutagawa - Capt. Kotaro Yoshioka
Chishū Ryū - 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
Ichirō 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 Shōnen Jump.

External links

(Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1958/ch001710.htm
Rickshaw Man at the Internet Movie Database

Weekly Shōnen Jump: 1968–1979

1968	Harenchi Gakuen

1969	Judo Boy

1970	Dokonjō Gaeru Akuma-kun

1971	Lion Books II

1972	Mazinger Z

1973	Barefoot Gen Play Ball

1975	Circuit no Ōkami Doberman Deka

1976	Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo

1977	Ring ni Kakero

1978	Cobra

1979	Kinnikuman

Golden Lion winning films

1949–1968	Manon (1949) Justice Is Done (1950) Rashomon (1951) Forbidden Games (1952) No award (1953) Romeo and Juliet (1954) Ordet (1955) No award (1956) Aparajito (1957) Rickshaw Man (1958) General Della Rovere / The Great War (1959) Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Family Diary / Ivan's Childhood (1962) Hands over the City (1963) Red Desert (1964) Sandra (1965) The Battle of Algiers (1966) Belle de Jour (1967) Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)

1980–2000	Atlantic City / Gloria (1980) Marianne and Juliane (1981) The State of Things (1982) First Name: Carmen (1983) A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) Vagabond (1985) The Green Ray (1986) Au revoir les enfants (1987) The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) A City of Sadness (1989) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Urga (1991) The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) Short Cuts / Three Colors: Blue (1993) Vive L'Amour / Before the Rain (1994) Cyclo (1995) Michael Collins (1996) Fireworks (1997) The Way We Laughed (1998) Not One Less (1999) The Circle (2000)

2001–present	Monsoon Wedding (2001) The Magdalene Sisters (2002) The Return (2003) Vera Drake (2004) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Still Life (2006) Lust, Caution (2007) The Wrestler (2008) Lebanon (2009) Somewhere (2010) Faust (2011) Pietà (2012) Sacro GRA (2013) A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) Desde allá (2015)

Films directed by Hiroshi Inagaki

Sword for Hire (1952)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
The Lone Journey (1955)
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
Arashi (1956)
Yagyu Secret Scrolls (1957)
Yagyu Secret Scrolls part II (1958)
Rickshaw Man (1958)
The Birth of Japan (1959)
Life of an Expert Swordsman (1959)
The Story of Osaka Castle (1961)
Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (1962)
Samurai Banners (1969)
Machibuse (1970)

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