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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2001 |
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| Film Title |
SOHTO |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[FURIOUS FIGHT] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[LOTTA FURIOSA] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1924 |
| Production Co. |
Makino |
| Director |
Kanamori, Bansho |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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18 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 6065 ft. |
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90' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in giapponese / Japanese intertitles. |
| Cast |
Shinpei Takagi
Misao Seki
Mariko Aoyama
Shizuko Mori
Shinobu Araki |
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| Other Credits |
| Otsuka, Shuichi (ph.) |
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| Other Information |
John Sweeney, pianoforte.
prima proiezione / released 15.8.1924 |
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| Program Notes |
In a back street in New York City, Sam (Shinpei Takagi), nicknamed "Little Mouse", rescues a vaudevillian, Li Fengsheng (Misao Seki), and a Japanese girl, Ohana (Fumiko Matsuba), from a villain, Liu Caiyuan (Shinobu Araki). Sam returns with them to his homeland, Japan. Sam saves a girl from danger, and finds out that she is Li's daughter, Miyoko (Shizuko Mori), whom he had left alone in Japan while he was looking for his wife, who had abandoned them to go to America. Sam takes Li to the house where Miyoko is living with her foster parents, only to find out that Miyoko has been sold off to a whorehouse only minutes before. Sam and his friend Kurose (Nobuo Takemura) dash into the whorehouse, and after a furious fight with the scoundrels they succeed in rescuing Miyoko.
Shinpei Takagi enjoyed great popularity at the time because of his acrobatic skills, to the extent that he was given the nickname Cho-jin, or "bird-man". In Sohto (Furious Fight), Takagi demonstrates the reason for that popularity by his spectacular battling on a skyscraper and jumping from one tall building to another. Although Makino Production generally tends to be associated with jidai geki, or period films, it also made innovative contemporary films like Sohto. Director Bansho Kanamori worked with Makino Productions from its foundation until its dissolution. - TS
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