Rickshaw Man | |
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Directed by | Hiroshi Inagaki |
Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
Starring |
Toshiro Mifune Hideko Takamine |
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103 min. |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Rickshaw Man (無法松の一生 Muhōmatsu no isshō?, "The Life of Wild Matsu") is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. It tells the story of Muhōmatsu, a rickshaw man, starring Toshiro Mifune who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman played by Hideko Takamine.
The film is a remake of a 1943 film of the same name.
Director Hiroshi Inagaki won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival in 1958.
A manga based on Rickshaw Man was published by Shueisha and serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Jump.