Hunter in the Dark Page #2

Synopsis: Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.
Director(s): Hideo Gosha
Production: Criterion Collection
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
NOT RATED
Year:
1979
137 min
35 Views


I felt like I was thrown

into the depths of hell.

Boss...

Let's observe the rule.

That picture again?

Sometimes you can be so childish.

Always the same picture.

But we are going there one day,

aren't we?

We'll go there together, won't we?

Yes, someday.

If you want to go that badly.

It's strange.

As you so often asked me to go,

I began to feel as though

I'd been there too.

Boss...

Kill me at once!

Please kill me!

Boss!

You chose to liVe in the underworld.

No one forced you.

So don't complain now.

I fell for a woman I shouldn't loVe.

I'm to blame. It's my fate.

I'Ve no grudge against the boss.

I'Ve nothing personal against him.

So as the rule says, kill me!

I wish I could ask

him to forgive you.

But you tried to kill him,

and that's unforgivable.

omon...

Boss...

What's wrong?

You look so stern.

I was lonely.

Yesterday... today...

So very lonely.

Don't say that.

Don't say you're lonely.

I love you. Boss.

I'm floating.

I'm floating.

My body is floating.

Is this where I'm to die?

omon.

It's our rule to kill woman

without bloodshed.

Because of that, you'll drown.

- Wait a minute!

We'Ve been friends a

long time haVen't we?

Let me at least prepare myself.

Omon.

What are you doing?

Stop it!

I'm the infamous Madame of Kamesen

and I'm going to die.

I want to be neat when I die.

Don't underestimate me.

I'm different from Yaichi.

You misunderstand.

You're very suspicious, aren't you?

Look. Now I have no

weapons whatsoever.

Now, search me.

Don't do it.

Omon, you mustn't.

You want me, don't you?

You can hold me if you like.

I'm going to die soon anyway.

What are you doing?!

PUBLIC BATH:

GOMYO'S DEN

Will you hurry?

Please hurry, will you?

We're closing for the day.

Welcome Inspector Chosuke.

I'm going to soak in

the bath for some time.

I'm sorry.

We are closing early today.

Please forgive me.

He likes the water hot, understand?

Inspector...

I'm with the police,

yet you dare to say no to me?

No, sir. Sorry, sir.

"offerings of money work so well. "

I see.

"The children of officials soon

learn how to tickle people's palms. "

"The children of officials soon

learn how to tickle people's palms. "

"The children of officials soon

learn how to tickle people's palms. "

Good, excellent wording!

Nowadays, officials won't do a thing

unless they're bribed.

Is that what this means?

Good wording.

It couldn't be better.

I really mean it.

You're making fool of me!

That I won't forgive!

Out of my way!

Why you...!

- Wait, inspector.

- What?

- He's upstairs.

What? upstairs?

Boss Gomyo's upstairs?

A comic song goes...

"Tanuma is absolutely beyond me"

"But a Shogun, at least,

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Hideo Gosha

Hideo Gosha (五社 英雄, Gosha Hideo, February 26, 1929 – August 30, 1992) was a Japanese film director. Born in Arasaka, Tokyo Prefecture, Gosha graduated from high school and served in the Imperial Navy during the Second World War. After earning a business degree at Meiji University, he joined Nippon television as a reporter in 1953. In 1957 he moved on to the newly founded Fuji Television and rose through the ranks as a producer and director. One of his television shows, the chambara Three Outlaw Samurai, so impressed the heads of the Shochiku film studio that he was offered the chance to adapt it as a feature film in 1964. Following this film's financial success, he directed a string of equally successful chambara productions through the end of the 1960s. His two most critical and popular successes of the period are Goyokin and Hitokiri (also known as Tenchu), both released in 1969 and both considered to be two of the finest examples of the chambara genre. During the 1970s Gosha abandoned pure chambara and turned his productive energies toward films in the yakuza genre but he still produced period sword films such as The Wolves (1971 film) (1972), Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978), and Hunter in the Dark (1979). His films Three Outlaw Samurai and Sword of the Beast (1965) have been released by Criterion.By the early 1980s, Gosha began making period films that featured prostitutes as protagonists that were renowned for their realism, violence, and overt sexuality. They were critically panned for those very reasons, but they were also all box office successes. In 1984 he was awarded the Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for The Geisha.Gosha’s films have influenced directors including Chang Cheh, Takashi Miike, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. more…

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