Kaze no Matasaburo#Plot
{{Infobox film
| name = Kaze no Matasaburō
| image =
| caption =
| director = Koji Shima
| producer =
| writer = Nagami Ryūzō
Ike Shintarō
| starring = Akihiko Katayama
Akira Oizumi
Akiko Kazami
| music = Sugihara Taizō
| cinematography = Aisaka Sōichi
| editing = Tsujii Masanori
| studio = Nikkatsu
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1940|}}
| runtime = 96 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
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{{nihongo|Kaze no Matasaburō|風の又三郎|Kaze no Matasaburō}}, in English Matasaburo of the Wind, is a 1940 Japanese fantasy children's drama film directed by Koji Shima,{{cite book|author=Alexander Jacoby|title=A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RhWNAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA3-PA1989|access-date=28 June 2014|date=10 February 2013|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|isbn=978-1-61172-531-5|pages=261–262}}{{cite web |url= http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=134265|script-title=ja:風の又三郎 (1940)|access-date= September 25, 2014|work= allcinema|publisher= Stingray|language= Japanese}} based on Kenji Miyazawa's 1934 short story of the same name.
Plot
Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind spirit.{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55522348|title=Kaze no Matasaburō |oclc=55522348 |access-date=30 Jun 2014}}
Cast
- Akihiko Katayama as Saburo Takada
- Akira Oizumi as Ichiro (Koichi)
- Akiko Kazami
- Ryūji Kita
- Hiroshi Hayashi as Grandfather of Ichiro
- Bontaro Miake
See also
- Kenji Miyazawa
- Kaze no Matasaburo – short story by Kenji Miyazawa
- [https://selftaughtjapanese.com/2016/11/07/japanese-literature-translation-風の又三郎-matasaburo-of-the-wind-by-宮沢賢治-kenji-miyazawa-part-15/ Full text of an English translation of "Matasaburo of the Wind"] (the original story on which the film is based on).
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://blog.livedoor.jp/michikusa05/archives/51168876.html|title=Japanese Vision cinema (1) "Kazenomatasaburou"}}
{{Koji Shima}}
Category:Films based on Japanese novels
Category:Japanese black-and-white films
Category:1940s Japanese-language films
Category:Films based on short fiction
Category:Films based on works by Kenji Miyazawa
Category:Japanese fantasy drama films
Category:1940s fantasy drama films
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