Sashichi Detective Story: Six Famous Beauties (1956) No Eng sub
Original title: Ningyô Sashichi torimonochô: Yôen roku shibijin
Year: 1956
Directed: Nobuo Nakagawa
Genre Crime / Detective
Runtime: 75 Min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: None
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800952/
Description : (Quote from the text of Jason Gray)
Set in the late Edo period (1603–1868, ed.), famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who‘s behind the serial murders of six beautiful women under the aegis of local showman Ibaragiya. The film opens with the sextet humiliating a respected painter‘s portraits of them, driving the man to a suspicious suicide. Later, while celebrating his son‘s impending marriage into a wealthy family, Ibaragiya releases six pigeons from a pleasure boat, each with a rolled up drawing of one of the beauties tied to their legs.
He offers a cash reward to whomever recovers the pictures, but they instead become death notices of which of the six are next to die. Dandy Sashichi, pestered by his two underlings, gets involved in the case almost by chance, but it becomes personal when his beloved wife (Hibino) is abducted.
This first entry in the series is an enjoyable romp through a variety of set-pieces and, as with much of Nakagawa‘s work, produced with a quality that belies its program picture origins. Most viewers would know Wakayama from the Lone Wolf and Cub (Kozure okami) series, but even in this early film, his deep voice and solid physicality lend the character a commanding presence. (...)
Nakagawa and cinematographer Yoshimi Hirano (who also shot the second Dandy Sashichi fi lm under Nakagawa, as well as KAACHAN and LADY VAMPIRE) keep the camera very mobile. There‘s a recurring pull-back shot that‘s used to great effect, most notably in the theater scene. Backstage, actors wander around in costume, when down the stairs comes a disfi gured, vengeful female spirit dressed in rags – surely the character of Oiwa from the Yotsuya-Kaidan tale (adapted in Nakagawa‘s 1959 GHOST STORY OF YOTSUYA, arguably his masterpiece).
As the camera pulls back and she comes towards us, a large prop is carried across the screen creating a wipe edit to the next beauty to be killed. (...)
After the seventh film, the series became a Toei franchise by proxy when Wakayama left Shintoho. The final entry in the Dandy Sashichi series was released in August of 1961.
Cast:
Shigeru Amachi
Keiko Hibino
Kotaro Sugiyama
Misako Uji
Katsuko Wakasugi
Tomisaburô Wakayama
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