Rickshaw Man (1958)
With Toshirō Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Jun Tatara, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Chishū Ryū, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Nakamura
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Rickshaw Man (無法松の一生, Muhōmatsu no isshō; "The Life of Wild Matsu"), also released as Muhomatsu, the Rickshaw Man or The Rikisha-Man, is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. It is a remake of his own 1943 film. In the 1943 version Tsumasaburo Bando played the role of Muhōmatsu. In October 2020, a digitally re-mastered 83 minute long version of the original black-and-white film in 4K quality was released in Tokyo at the Tokyo International Film Festival, with a Blu-ray disc going on sale on 26 March 2021.
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