A Legend or Was It?
1963 film by Keisuke Kinoshita
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Kanji | 死闘の伝説 |
Directed by | Keisuke Kinoshita |
Written by | Keisuke Kinoshita |
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Starring |
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Cinematography | Hiroyuki Kusuda |
Edited by | Yoshi Sugihara |
Music by | Chūji Kinoshita |
Production company | Shochiku[1] |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 83 |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
A Legend or Was It? (死闘の伝説, Shitō no densetsu), also known as Legend of a Duel to the Death, is a 1963 Japanese drama film written and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.[1][2][3]
Cast
- Shima Iwashita as Koeko Sonobe
- Gō Katō as Hideyuki Sonobe
- Mariko Kaga as Yuri Shimizu
- Tsutomu Matsukawa as Norio Sonobe
- Kinuyo Tanaka as Shizuko Sonobe
- Bunta Sugawara as Goichi Takamori
- Yoshi Katō as Shintaro Shimizu
- Kikue Mōri as Umeno Sonobe
- Tokue Hanazawa as Yamanosuke
- Tatsuya Ishiguro as Kimbei Takamori
Legacy
A Legend or Was It? was screened at the 2012 Filmex as part of its retrospective on Keisuke Kinoshita,[4] and at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2013 in the "Forum" section.[5]
References
- ^ a b "【作品データベース】死闘の伝説". Shochiku (in Japanese). Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ^ a b "死闘の伝説". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 July 2023.
- ^ a b "死闘の伝説". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 July 2023.
- ^ Mes, Tom (14 January 2013). "A Legend or Was It?". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ "Shito no densetsu". Berlinale.de. 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
External links
- A Legend or Was It? at IMDb
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Films directed by Keisuke Kinoshita
- Army (1944)
- Woman (1948)
- Apostasy (1948)
- Wedding Ring (1950)
- Carmen Comes Home (1951)
- The Good Fairy (1951)
- Boyhood (1951)
- Fireworks over the Sea (1951)
- Carmen's Pure Love (1952)
- A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
- The Garden of Women (1954)
- Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
- She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
- Farewell to Dream (1956)
- Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957)
- Danger Stalks Near (1957)
- The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
- The Snow Flurry (1959)
- Thus Another Day (1959)
- The River Fuefuki (1960)
- Immortal Love (1961)
- A Legend or Was It? (1963)
- The Scent of Incense (1964)
- Big Joys, Small Sorrows (1986)
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