「Proof Of The Man」
(1977/Japan/132 min./Distributed by: Kadokawa Entertainment)
| ●Original Story by： |
Seiichi Morimura (published by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.) |
| ●Director： |
Junya Sato |
| ●Starring： |
Mariko Okada, Yusaku Matsuda, Joe Yamanaka, George Kennedy |
Filmed with the big-time actors and actresses from Japan and the U.S., this was a blockbuster at the time.
It all started with a murder case of an American citizen, whose father was a Black American and mother a Japanese. A poem, by Yaso Saijo entitled Straw Hat, provides the key to unraveling the links between seemingly unrelated threads and moves the case from Tokyo and New York City to the small rural hotspring of Kirizumi...
Director Junya Sato started his career at Toei Toyo Studio in 1956. He has directed many blockbuster films, including "Shinkansen daibakuha (The Bullet Train)" in 1975, "Mikan no taiyoku (The Go Masters)" in 1982, "Uemura Naomi monogatari (Lost in the Wilderness)" in 1986, "Ton ko (The Silk Road)" 1988, and so on. |
