The legend of the master of scroll paintings
| Movie | |
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| German title | The legend of the master of scroll paintings |
| Original title | 近 松 物語 (Chikamatsu Monogatari) |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 102 minutes |
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| Director | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| script | Yoshikata Yoda |
| production | Nagata Masaichi |
| music | Hayasaka Fumio |
| camera | Kazuo Miyagawa |
| cut | Sugawara Kanji |
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The legend of the master of scrolls ( Japanese 近 松 物語 ) is a Japanese film by director Kenji Mizoguchi from 1954. The film is based on the puppet show Daikyōji Mukashi-Goyomi by the playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon from 1715.
action
At the end of the 17th century, the scroll painting master Ishun made pictures and calendars for the imperial court in his shop in Kyoto . His wife Osan often gives her cocky brother money from her husband's stock. But since she does not have unlimited access to her husband's funds, she asks Mohei, the company's clerk, for payments, for which he illegally uses the master's name stamp. He is caught and takes the blame in order not to incriminate Osan. His servant Otama, who is in love with Mohei, for whom the scroll painting master raves, falsely accuses herself of being his accomplice.
Mohei is locked up by the business owner and is to be handed over to the authorities. At the same time, Otama informs Osan, when she wants to thank her, that Ishun, the scroll master, is secretly chasing her. Osan and Otama swap rooms and Otama wants to surprise Ishun, her husband, and confront her if he breaks into Otama's room again. Instead, Mohei, who has broken out, comes to Otama's room, where Osan is waiting. The two are seen together and the two are believed to have a relationship. Adultery is punishable by death. Osan and Mohei flee and on the run the two confess their love to each other shortly before they want to kill each other. After that, they choose to go on living, but they are captured and sentenced to death.
background
The plot of the film is based on a play by the playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon . The piece from 1715 is again based on a true story that took place 33 years earlier. The motif of double suicide is a recurring motif in Chikamatsu and occurs in about twenty of his hundred pieces. Similar to Johann Wolfgang Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther , some readers and viewers felt encouraged to commit suicide by the plays, so that the government finally banned plays in which the word shinjū , i.e. the double suicide of two lovers, appeared. The two main characters, Osan and Mohei, want to kill themselves at Lake Biwa , which is traditionally a place for such acts.
As with Ugetsu stories under the rain moon , Mizoguchi had Matsutarō Kawaguchi write a play that was then converted into a script by Yoda Yoshikata .
Reviews
The lexicon of international film calls the film “an epically broad, immensely captivating film adaptation of a drama from 1716; Impressively photographed and atmospherically densely staged ” .
Awards
The legend of the scroll master won the Blue Ribbon Award in Tokyo in 1955 and was also shown in competition at the 1955 Cannes International Film Festival.
literature
- Keiko Yamane: The Japanese cinema. Story films directors . Publishing house CJ Bucher, Munich 1985.
- Mark Le Fanu: Mizoguchi and Japan . British Film Institute, London 2005.
Web links
- The legend of the master of the scrolls in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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- ↑ a b Keiko Yamane: The Japanese Cinema. History - films - directors. Munich / Lucerne: Verlag CJ Bucher, p. 133
- ^ Mark Le Fanu: Mizoguchi and Japan. London: British Film Institute
- ↑ The legend of the master of scroll paintings. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 3, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046851/awards