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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2001 |
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| Film Title |
KEISATSUKAN |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[POLICEMAN] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[POLIZIOTTO] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1933 |
| Production Co. |
Shinko Kinema |
| Director |
Uchida, Tomu |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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18 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 8157 ft. |
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120' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in giapponese, sottotitoli in inglese / Japanese intertitles, English subtitles. |
| Cast |
Isamu Kosugi
Eiji Nakano
Taisuke Matsumoto
Shizuko Mori
Tamako Katsura |
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| Other Credits |
| Aisaka, Soichi (ph.) |
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| Other Information |
Donald Sosin, pianoforte.
prima proiezione / released 30.11.1933 |
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| Program Notes |
One night a police cordon is formed in Tokyo. Itami, a policeman, is on the alert. Checking a car, Itami finds his old friend Tomioka in it. Several days later, Itami captures one bank robber, but another robber kills Miyabe, a policeman who once saved Itami and helped him become a policeman. Itami suspects Tomioka, and finally discovers the evidence of his crime. He decides to arrest his old friend.
Tomu Uchida left Nikkatsu to form an independent company with Minoru Murata, Daisuke Ito, Tomotaka Tasaka, and others, but this new company encountered financial problems and lasted less than a year. In 1933 Uchida joined Shinko Kinema in order to continue working as a director; Keisatsukan was his first film there. This film is an adaptation of the stage play of the same title, which told the story of a policeman fighting against the Communist Party. As in the stage play, the film suggests the gangsters' political activity. Though Uchida made one of the most famous Japanese left-wing films, Ikeru Ningyo (A Living Doll, 1929), he had to make films like Keisatsukan in line with national policy. - HK
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