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 =

}}

{{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).

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