Seven Miles to Nakayama

Overview

When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima committed suicide. Going underground in the gambling world, perpetually hiding from the law, Masa eventually meets a young woman named Onaka, who looks exactly like Oshima. Tales having two look-alike heroines are a commonplace in Japanese period films, a plot affectation inherited from the kabuki theater. Based on a novel by Shin Hasegawa, Nakayama shichiri was already twice filmed in 1930, one version directed by Namio Ochiai, and from which less than 40 minutes survive, the other directed by Kyotaro Namiki. Both are silent films, preserved by the Makino film institute.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 27, 1962

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Daiei Film

Cast

Raizō Ichikawa,Tamao Nakamura,Eijirō Yanagi,Saburo Date,Koichi Ose,Yukio Hashi,Nakajirō Tomita,Sonosuke Sawamura,Teruko Ōmi,Hisako Takihanaand 4 more

Director

Kazuo Ikehiro

Writer

Shin Hasegawa,Masao Matsumura,Masao Uno

Cinematography

Senkichirō Takeda

Music

Setsuo Tsukahara

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0253276