This time even having a Ronin no fight at all, the little gem from Japanese tale that takes place a slum area on late 18th Century at Edo (Current Tokyo) where several sad happening are ongoing, a veteran Samurai committed suicide, the landlord local demands an affordable funeral, however all neighbors require five bottles of sake to drink during the long night veiling the body, meanwhile at daylight enters an old fishing vendor speaking louder continuously at street bothering the bystanders, also an unemployed Ronin has a letter from his death father to his former friend that today is powerful chief of the whole area exploitation the forbidden gambling, offering safeguard for pawnshop, dealing a proper marriage with a rich clan among others misdemeanours which became he rich man.
Actually the Ronin never got a meeting at your home with the Chief, suddenly he finds him at street the lousy man flees from conversation saying that is too busy now and asking to Ronin that will receive next morning at home, sheer curling in the early morning the tough doorman coming back saying that the chief never know him anywhere, then the heartbroken Ronin goes back at his poorest home, there his suffered wife making paper balloons to help in the costing to survive under hopeless condition, the proud Ronin said that the chief already got the his father's letter and soon as possible he will got the job, in fact he almost begged to the callous Boss.
Another meaningful fact is about a barber man that is making secretly a gabling in the area, aware that the chief faces him to didn't it under any means, or shall be subject a hard rebuke of their minions, thus as payback the bold barber kidnaped a young woman that the chief was addressing a profitable marriage with a richest clan, all this screw up his plans.
This little great picture made in late thirties became a cult even in the westerns places where too much cherished by the critics and cinephiles, a tender a sorrowful story about poverty, humbleness and hopelessness, a sort tragic-comic feature!!
Thanks for reading.
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First watch: 2022 / Source: DVD / How many: 1 / Rating: 8.5.
Actually the Ronin never got a meeting at your home with the Chief, suddenly he finds him at street the lousy man flees from conversation saying that is too busy now and asking to Ronin that will receive next morning at home, sheer curling in the early morning the tough doorman coming back saying that the chief never know him anywhere, then the heartbroken Ronin goes back at his poorest home, there his suffered wife making paper balloons to help in the costing to survive under hopeless condition, the proud Ronin said that the chief already got the his father's letter and soon as possible he will got the job, in fact he almost begged to the callous Boss.
Another meaningful fact is about a barber man that is making secretly a gabling in the area, aware that the chief faces him to didn't it under any means, or shall be subject a hard rebuke of their minions, thus as payback the bold barber kidnaped a young woman that the chief was addressing a profitable marriage with a richest clan, all this screw up his plans.
This little great picture made in late thirties became a cult even in the westerns places where too much cherished by the critics and cinephiles, a tender a sorrowful story about poverty, humbleness and hopelessness, a sort tragic-comic feature!!
Thanks for reading.
Resume:
First watch: 2022 / Source: DVD / How many: 1 / Rating: 8.5.