Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate

Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate
Directed byYūzō Kawashima
Written by
Produced byTakeshi Yamamoto
Starring
CinematographyKurataro Takamura
Edited byTadashi Nakamura
Music byToshiro Mayuzumi
Production
company
Distributed byNikkatsu
Release date
  • 14 July 1957 (1957-07-14)[1][2]
Running time
110 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Yūzō Kawashima (left) directing actor Frankie Sakai

Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (幕末太陽傳 or 幕末太陽伝, Bakumatsu taiyōden), also known as A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, is a 1957 Japanese comedy film directed by Yūzō Kawashima and written by Kawashima, Shōhei Imamura and Keiichi Tanaka.[1][2][3] It was voted the fifth best Japanese film of all time in a poll of 140 Japanese critics and filmmakers conducted by the magazine Kinema Junpo in 1999.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Bakumatsu taiyōden". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 January 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Bakumatsu taiyōden". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Bakumatsu taiyōden". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Kinema Junpo: Japanese one hundred all time best movies" (in Japanese). My Cinema Theater. Retrieved 10 September 2011.

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