Salaryman Kintaro
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Salaryman Kintaro |
| Original title | Salaryman Kintaro |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Takashi Miike |
| script |
Naoko Harada , Kenji Nakazono Hiroshi Motomiya (template) |
| production |
Kazuya Hamana , Morihiro Kodama , Mitsunori Morita |
| music | Kōji Endō |
| camera | Hideo Yamamoto |
| cut | Yasushi Shimamura |
| occupation | |
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Salaryman Kintaro ( Japanese サ ラ リ ー マ ン 金太郎 , Sararīman Kintarō ) is a Japanese real- life film by Takashi Miike from 1999 based on the manga of the same name by Hiroshi Motomiya .
The management level action film is more of a side work in Miike's extensive filmmaking. With an FSK 16 rating, it is one of his tamer films. The salaryman (employee) Kintarō embodies Katsunori Takahashi , who has already played this in a television series.
The film opened in Japan on November 13, 1999. It premiered in Germany on July 1, 2004 on DVD. In the trade it is at least in editions of CAROL Media / Best Entertainment AG (picture format 4: 3) and of Asian Film Network.
action
In present-day Japan, the salaryman Kintarō and his little boy take part in a fun race, in which they take first place. He forgot the 40th anniversary of his employer Yamato Construction. He runs to work and on the way changes his sportswear for a suit and tie. In addition, the inconspicuous salary gets into a fight in a backyard, but can fight off his skin.
The company owner Yamato, his future father-in-law, already misses him at the business reception, which is about various tunnel construction projects, dams and large structures, mostly publicly owned. Kintarō takes a hostess into protection from the chauvinist MP Tanioka. Kintarō is sent from Tokyo to Tōhoku to be subordinate to the new superior Igoh. In a house fire, Kintaro turns out to be a hero by saving a small child from the flames. Igoh in his fifties, whom he meets mah- jongg, turns out to be extremely grumpy. Kintaro may have been sent there to keep an eye on Igoh or because of Igoh's various vices; Yamato, however, submits to his wife that it was intended as a trial by fire for Kintarō, for whom he has higher management in mind. Meanwhile, Kintarō fights with the monster Igoh in the forest.
Elsewhere, MP Tanioka is being asked to shut down Yamato's company and personally ruin it.
Kintaro comes home injured to his friend Masumi. A number of construction contracts are inexplicably withdrawn from the company, resulting in a catastrophe. Masumi is actually not Yamato's daughter, but Igoh's. Yamato considers bringing Igoh back from exile to headquarters for the sake of his own good, so that the truth can come to the table. At the hearing about a public award , Kintarō gets a bid that turns out to be too high (his supervisor slept off his intoxication). Kintarō meets a girl he goes out with, but remains loyal to Masumi. The mood in the company is devastating. With Senpai Igoh he got himself together. At the next award, the Yamato Corp. Again the short runner, but Kintarō manages to uncover the manipulation of high three-digit million amounts in front of the committee and participants. Old Yamato motivates him to "fight" for the company. He first polished up the working atmosphere in the open-plan office and created new calculations in long overtime (although not up to Karōshi ).
A department head of the authority hangs himself (allegedly) because of the scandal over subsidy fraud and corruption. Soon the local yakuza clan is hot on the heels of Kintaro. Kintaro is kidnapped and beaten up so that he can withdraw an estimate. Igoh arrives at the last second and pays it with the same coin. Igoh is visiting the wounded man and he's been investigating. Behind the company Hokutoh Sohken is actually the MP Tanioka, who wants to build a conglomerate . Igoh almost falls victim to a letter bomb and ends up in intensive care. Kintaro's son escapes a second letter bomb by a hair's breadth. Now Kintaro decides to retaliate. He demots his old motorcycle jacket.
Kintaro seems to have a very different past; With a single phone call he reactivated his two thousand- strong Bōsōzoku motorcycle gang, whose members are all personally sworn to him. The two thousand motorcycles march towards Tohoku. Under media coverage, they roll over a massive police presence, the area is on the verge of a state of emergency. The rocker gang fights in a company building. Kintarō confronts one of the pullers, Kudoh, and is about to behead him when Igoh, bandaged and on crutches, comes and stops him. Back in the open, Kintarō is overwhelmed and led away by police hundreds.
He is on trial for the formation of a criminal organization and significant public disorder, but is given extenuating circumstances and eventually a year probation. Above all, the affair blows the cartel open and those responsible are held accountable. All of Japan celebrates him as a hero. The family is reunited in front of the cheering audience in front of the courthouse.
Reviews
- "Furiously staged thriller [...] The weirdly presented story and a good portion of black humor reveal the signature of cult director Takashi Miike." ( Lexicon of international film )
- “A little joy; a bit of melodrama; a bit of action; a little intrigue. [...] curious but extremely enjoyable "(www.filmmonthly.com)
- “Salaryman Kintaro's budget wasn't all that modest - and so the film looks good. The visual gadgets typical of Miike are missing for a long time. [...] Everything always to pleasant rock music . The soundtrack of the whole film is cool anyway. [...] his attempt at a family film. [...] Even politics and dull conflicts of interest in the construction industry become exciting. "(Www.molodezhnaja.ch)
- "Largely ignored, wrongly in my opinion." (Twitch)
- “Formally not very daring. You could come to terms with that, but the film hardly manages to develop other qualities, especially due to its slow narrative pace . ”( Thomas Groh : www.jump-cut.de DVD Blog)
Awards
Awards of the Japanese Academy 2000
- Award of the Japanese Academy in the Newcomer of the Year category for Katsunori Takahashi
Web links
- Salaryman Kintaro in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Salaryman Kintaro at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Salaryman Kintaro in the online film database
- Thomas Groh: DVD: Salaryman Kintaro (Takashi Miike, Japan 1999)
- Salaryman Kintaro (TV) (template) at Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. Groh (web links).
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847138/
- ↑ IMDb , s. Web links.
- ↑ a b Salaryman Kintaro in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on February 17, 2009
- ↑ Ben Beard: White-Collar Worker Kintaro (1999). In: Film Monthly. Retrieved February 18, 2009 : “There's a little laughter; there's a little melodrama; there's a little action; there's a little intrigue. [...] oddball but supremely enjoyable "
- ↑ Salaryman Kintaro ~ Sarariiman Kintarô. In: www.molodezhnaja.ch. molodezhnaja, February 18, 2009, accessed February 18, 2009 .
- ^ Twitch-O-Meter: The Takashi Miike List of Lists by Logboy. (No longer available online.) In: Twitch. twitchfilm.net, archived from the original on December 6, 2008 ; accessed on February 18, 2009 (English): "Just plain ignored, wrongly in my opinion" Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
