Nihon no Fixer
{{short description|1979 film directed by Yasuo Furuhata}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Nihon no Fixer
The Fixer
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| director = Yasuo Furuhata
| producer = Gōrō Kusakabe
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| screenplay = Kōji Takada
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| starring = {{Plainlist|
- Shin Saburi
- Masakazu Tamura
- Tatsuo Umemiya
- Kayo Matsuo
- Ichirō Nakatani
- Akira Nakao
- Kyoko Enami
- Kunie Tanaka
- Mikio Narita
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| music = Hajime Kaburagi
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| distributor = Toei
| released = {{Film date|1979|10|27| Japan}}
| runtime = 131 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
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{{Nihongo|The Fixer|日本の黒幕|Nihon no Fixer|lead=yes}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehawaiiherald.com/2014/12/01/ngn-digital-channel-677-2/|title=The Hawaii Herald - Hawaii's Japanese American Journal}} is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata.{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E9%BB%92%E5%B9%95-755333|title=日本の黒幕とは|publisher=kotobank|access-date=24 December 2020}}{{cite web|url= http://db.eiren.org/contents/03000001092.html |title=日本の黒幕 |publisher=一般社団法人 日本映画製作者連盟・|access-date=28 October 2018}} Inspired by Lockheed bribery scandals. Modeling on Kakuei Tanaka and Yoshio Kodama, the film depicts the collusion between Japanese right-wing organizations and the political and business world.大島渚著作集〈第3巻〉わが映画を解体する』 現代思潮新社、2009 p.290-292 {{ISBN|9784329004611}} Nagisa Oshima was due to direct this film.あの暑かった夏のこと 内藤 誠 - 日本映画監督協会 - Directors Guild of Japan内藤誠 監督ばか 彩流社、2014 p.154-160 {{ISBN|978-4-7791-7016-4}}
Plot
Yamaoka is a fixer who made a man the prime minister of Japan, but he is being pursued for violating the Foreign Exchange Law and tax evasion in a fraudulent case involving the sale of aircraft. One day a boy tries to kill Yamaoka, but fails because Imaizumi stops him, and Yamaoka names him Koichi and makes him his subordinate.{{cite web|url=https://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=13197 |title=日本の黒幕 |publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs|access-date=28 October 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=19026&key_search=%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E9%BB%92%E5%B9%95|title=日本の黒幕|publisher=Kinema Junpo|access-date=27 December 2020}}
Cast
- Shin Saburi as Yamakuni (modeled after Yoshio Kodama)
- Masakazu Tamura as Imaizumi
- Kayo Matsuo as Masako Yamaoka
- Kyoko Enami as Toshiko Yamaoka
- Akira Nakao as Dan
- Seizō Fukumoto as Nakahashi
- Harumi Sone as Yutaka Ikeuchi
- Junkichi Orimoto as Tsunuma
- Ryunosuke Kaneda as Hirayama
- Maki Tachibana as Kayoko Sawai
- Masataka Iwao as Yuji Maejima
- Etsushi Takahashi as Masao Kaga
- Nenji Kobayashi as Shunsuke Mizumaki
- Ichirō Nakatani as Yoshino
- Kunie Tanaka as Tatsuo Ryuzaki
- Noboru Nakaya as Suzumura
- Ichirō Arishima as Heikichi Shibuya
- Mikio Narita as Yasuzo Morishima
- Chomei Soganoya as Tasuo Osanai(modeled after Kakuei Tanaka)
- Tatsuo Umemiya as Takayoshi Oguri
References
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