Shibukawa Bangorō

A film on the life of Shibukawa Bangorō the founder of the Shibukawaryū school of jūjutsu To paraphrase Satō Tadaos blurb on the back cover of the video this is an important film for three reasons 1 it is an almost perfectly well preserved copy of one of only a few fulllength movies still available of the first superstar in Japanese cinema history the very famous Onoe Matsunosuke 2 it uses a method that was common in the silent era the dyeingtinting of film to mark given moments of day for ex blue for nighttime or given situations for ex red for fire and even though most films that used this technique have been redeveloped in straight bw this one is available in its original form 3 it is an early SFX special effects movie that uses the basic tools of the trade a great action movie full of swordsmanship and monsters bakemono