Dragnet Girl
{{short description|1933 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Dragnet Girl
| native_name = {{Infobox Japanese
| kanji = 非常線の女
| revhep = Hijōsen no Onna}}
| image = Dragnet Girl 1933.jpeg
| caption = Kinuyo Tanaka and Joji Oka in Dragnet Girl
| director = Yasujirō Ozu
| producer =
| screenplay = Tadao Ikeda
| story = James Maki (Yasujirō Ozu)
| starring = Kinuyo Tanaka
Joji Oka
Sumiko Mizukubo
| music =
| cinematography = Hideo Mohara
| editing = Kazuo Ishikawa
Minoru Kuribayashi
| studio = Shochiku
| released = {{film date|1933|4|27|df=y}}
| runtime = 100 minutes
| language = Japanese
| country = Japan
| budget =
}}
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{{nihongo|Dragnet Girl|非常線の女|Hijōsen no Onna}} is a 1933 Japanese silent gangster film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. Written by Tadao Ikeda, the film tells the story of a gangster and his girlfriend finding redemption through the actions of an innocent girl and her not-so-innocent brother.
Plot
Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka) is a typist and the girlfriend of a small-time gangster, Joji (Joji Oka). A student, Hiroshi (Kōji Mitsui), joins the gang. When Joji begins to fall for Hiroshi's sister, Kazuko (Sumiko Mizukubo), Tokiko decides to scare her rival away. However, Tokiko takes a liking to Kazuko and decides to reform. Joji throws Tokiko out, but she soon returns and convinces him to give up his life of crime.
Meanwhile, Hiroshi has stolen money from the shop where his sister works. Joji and Tokiko rob Tokiko's boss and give the money to Hiroshi so that he can pay back the money he stole.
Pursued by the police, Tokiko entreats Joji to surrender. When he refuses, she shoots him. She continues to ask for his forgiveness, running to him and grabbing him into a hug as the two cry. Police officers close in as the couple embrace.{{cite book |last=Bordwell |first=David |authorlink=David Bordwell |title=Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema |year=1988 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=0-85170-158-2 |page=244 }}
Cast
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- Kinuyo Tanaka as Tokiko
- Joji Oka as Joji
- Sumiko Mizukubo as Kazuko
- Kōji Mitsui as Hiroshi (credited as Hideo Mitsui)
- Yumeko Aizome as Misako
- Yoshio Takayama as Senko
- Koji Kaga as Misawa
- Yasuo Nanjo as Okazaki, the president's son
- Chishū Ryū as a policeman
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Home media
On 18 March 2013, the British Film Institute released the film on Region 2 DVD as part of The Gangster Films collection, along with Walk Cheerfully (1930), That Night's Wife (1930), and the surviving fragment of A Straightforward Boy (1929).{{Cite web|url=http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_25038.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130423193015/http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_25038.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 April 2013|title = BFI Shop - DVD & Blu-ray}}
The Criterion Collection released the film for Region 1 on 21 April 2015, along with Ozu's Walk Cheerfully and That Night's Wife, as part of a DVD boxset through its Eclipse series.{{cite web|title=Eclipse Series 42: Silent Ozu—Three Crime Dramas|url=http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1104-eclipse-series-42-silent-ozu-three-crime-dramas|website=The Criterion Collection|publisher=The Criterion Collection|access-date=23 July 2015}}{{cite web|title=Dragnet Girl (1933)|url=http://www.criterion.com/films/28224-dragnet-girl|website=The Criterion Collection|publisher=The Criterion Collection|access-date=23 July 2015}}{{cite web|title=Eclipse Series 42: Silent Ozu — Three Crime Dramas DVD|url=http://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Eclipse-Series-42-Silent-Ozu---Three-Crime-Dramas-DVD/100801/|website=Blu-ray.com|publisher=Blu-ray.com|access-date=23 July 2015}}
Cinematic release
The film was shown in a number of venues across Scotland in 2014, as part of the Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema, with live musical accompaniment by Jane Gardner (piano), Roddy Long (violin) and Hazel Morrison (percussion). This new score was also composed by Jane Gardner.{{cite web| title = Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema on Tour| work = Falkirk Community Trust| date = 21 May 2014| url = http://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/venues/hippodrome/silent-cinema/on-tour.aspx| access-date = 22 June 2014| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150723130723/http://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/venues/hippodrome/silent-cinema/on-tour.aspx| archive-date = 23 July 2015}}
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb title|id=0024120|title=Dragnet Girl}}
{{Yasujirō Ozu}}
Category:Japanese gangster films
Category:Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Category:Japanese black-and-white films
Category:Films with screenplays by Tadao Ikeda