Priest of Darkness

Name: Kôchiyama Sôshun
Genre: Drama
Released: 1936-04-30
Duration: 1 h 22 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi

Original title: Kôchiyama Sôshun

1936
1h 22m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

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Setsuko Hara, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, and Kan'emon Nakamura in Priest of Darkness (1936)

Drama

After a young shopkeeper steals the knife of one of his costumers, a samurai, a chain of increasingly complex events is set into motion.After a young shopkeeper steals the knife of one of his costumers, a samurai, a chain of increasingly complex events is set into motion.After a young shopkeeper steals the knife of one of his costumers, a samurai, a chain of increasingly complex events is set into motion.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

527

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Trivia
Film debut of beloved (and extremely prolific) character actor Daisuke Katô.

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Featured in Wife of a Spy (2020)

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6/10

A Different Style Of Kabuki

It looks like an amiable comedy set in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district, where saki shop owner Setsuko Hara is worried about her brother, a wastrel who stole a samurai's knife when he put it down for a minute. There are amiable drunks, rakish monks, quarrels about nothing that are settled instantly when a woman has a cut finger, and Daisuke Katô in his first screen appearance. People keep throwing around big sums of money, treating 10 ryos like they're nothing, but the sums keep rising and the tempers begin to fray as the endless night that makes up this movie wears on.

I'm probably missing a lot of subtext. It's based on a kabuki play by Mokuami Kawatake, whose works I am absolutely unfamiliar with. However the comedy elements keep it chugging along.