Hiromi Gô

  • Masahiro Shinoda – Yari no gonza aka Gonza the Spearman (1986)

    1981-1990AsianDramaJapanMasahiro Shinoda

    A lancer falls into disgrace when his social ambitions lead him to become engaged to two different women.

    Quote:
    LEAD: Don’t be put off by the title. ”Gonza the Spearman” is not an Eastern western. Masahiro Shinoda’s stately work, which opens the Public Theater’s Autumn in Japan series today, has few duels and only a gout or two of blood. Instead, it is filled with historical imagination, social comment and restrained passion, along with scene after elegantly composed scene of a culture that seems to have been paralyzed in a spare beauty.Read More »

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