13 Dec 2019
Talking the Pictures
Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films.
The King
The life story of the shogi master&maniac Sankichi Sakata in the Meiji era.
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.
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三国連太郎 
淡島千景 
三田佳子 
村田英雄 
千葉真一 
平幹二朗 
花沢徳衛 
香川良介 
殿山泰司 
菅原通済 谷晃 
神田隆 
赤木春恵 寺島貢 岡野耕作 
河合絃司 杉義一
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