THE KOSUZUME PASS (1923) - Silent Film
Kosuzume tôge - Despite the fact Jidaigeki star Tsumasaburo Bando only appears in a minor role, the film is significant because it is the oldest preserved film featuring the actor. The value is further increased by the fact that the film is one of the very few extant works featuring the period drama star Banya Ichikawa in the lead role.
Kosuzume Pass begins to tackle the code of the Samurai in its first few minutes, during which we learn that a young Samurai is in a relationship that he knows has no future. The woman he leaves behind soon gives birth to a child and as a result of the shame her family feels, she is banished from her home.
Ten years after those events, Tokutaro, the child of this couple, now an orphan, makes a living selling candy along the pass he has called home. One day he helps out a group of wayward Ronin and then tries his utmost to convince them to change their way of life. He even offers them what little money he has as a gift if only they will promise to give up crime. Eventually his kind-heartedness and innocent humanism changes the ways of these three evil bandits, including the boss of the infamous gang named Heiji.
But things change for everyone after the boy is reunited with his father......
Director: Koroku Numata
Stars: Tsumasaburo Bando, Banya Ichikawa and Ichitaro Kataoka
1923 – SILENT FILM with Narration and ENGLISH SUBTITLES – B&W – FULL SCREEN - 39 MINUTES
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Kosuzume Pass begins to tackle the code of the Samurai in its first few minutes, during which we learn that a young Samurai is in a relationship that he knows has no future. The woman he leaves behind soon gives birth to a child and as a result of the shame her family feels, she is banished from her home.
Ten years after those events, Tokutaro, the child of this couple, now an orphan, makes a living selling candy along the pass he has called home. One day he helps out a group of wayward Ronin and then tries his utmost to convince them to change their way of life. He even offers them what little money he has as a gift if only they will promise to give up crime. Eventually his kind-heartedness and innocent humanism changes the ways of these three evil bandits, including the boss of the infamous gang named Heiji.
But things change for everyone after the boy is reunited with his father......
Director: Koroku Numata
Stars: Tsumasaburo Bando, Banya Ichikawa and Ichitaro Kataoka
1923 – SILENT FILM with Narration and ENGLISH SUBTITLES – B&W – FULL SCREEN - 39 MINUTES
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