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A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
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- TriviaThe turning rickshaw wheel, consistently interspersed throughout the film, has several meanings. At a superficial level, it represents the life of Matsugoro and the passage of time. On a deeper level, it can be seen as symbolizing the Buddhist wheel of life. At the end of the film, the wheel stops, representing not just Matsugoro's death, but also his exiting of cyclic existence (reincarnation) through his selfless life and service to others.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015)
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Mifune Shines As Usual
When I think of Toshiro Mifune I usually think of the films he made with Akira Kurosawa, but he had a streak of excellent performances in interesting films directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. The first films I saw were the "Samurai Trilogy" (1954-56), three films based on the life of Miyamoto Musashi. That being said I was also impressed by The Rickshaw Man (1958). Mifune delivers his trademark "physical" role of Matsu "the Outlaw"(a title appropriated by Imamura in one of his documentaries) a larger than life rickshaw man in Kokura, Kyushu. Evidently, this is a remake of an earlier film, but i have never seen the previous film. Matsu befriends a small boy and becomes the surrogate father after the boy's father dies. He also carries a torch for the boy's mother played by Naruse regular Hideko Takamine. In this film we get to see Mifune win a running race,beat up several school boys in a big fight, and expertly play the taiko drum. The storyline is somewhat melodramatic, but Mifune carries the film with his charismatic performance-it is entertaining and worthwhile.
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- Feb 6, 2017
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- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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