Coup d'etat (1973 film)

Coup d'Etat aka Martial Law (戒厳令, Kaigenrei) is a 1973 Japanese film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. It was Japan's submission to the 46th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but it was not accepted as a nominee.[1][2]

Coup d'Etat
Japanese戒厳令
HepburnKaigenrei
Directed byYoshishige Yoshida
Written byMinoru Betsuyaku
Music byToshi Ichiyanagi Hideo Kanze Yuji Takahashi Takehisa Kosugi
Production
company
Release date
  • June 7, 1973 (1973-06-07)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Cast

  • Rentarō Mikuni as Kazuki Kitamura / Ikki Kita
  • Yasuyo Matsumura as Suzu, Kazuki's wife
  • Yasuo Miyake as Young soldier
  • Akiko Kurano as Soldier's wife
  • Tadahiko Sugano as Nishida
  • Taketoshi Naitō as Army officer
  • Kei Iinuma as Iwasa
  • Kazunaga Tsuji as Heigo Asahi
  • Masako Yagi as Heigo's sister

Plot

The film is an account of the attempted overthrow of the Japanese government by the army on February 26, 1936.[3] It is based on the life of the ultranationalist intellectual Ikki Kita.

See also

References

  1. "List of Japanese films nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film" (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
  2. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  3. Jacoby, Alexander (2008). A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. p. 364. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.