Hiroshi Inagaki – Yatô kaze no naka o hashiru (1961)
imdb Bandits on the Wind, Inagaki. This movie is beautiful, funny, heroic. It’s a shame it’s not better known. At one point the most immature and pathological bandit (in a bad bunch) is forced to pretend to be a prince. The timing that shows this Japanese’s inability to sit cross legged is hysterical. There’s a wonderful joke where a bandit weeps to recall how peasants were forced to build a defensive wall, and then slaughtered to keep it secret. “How did you escape?” another bandit wants to know. “Escape nothing: I was one of the guys doing the killing!” The martial arts triangle defense–two katana and a spear–is stellar. The bandits blend cooperation and chaos as it suits them; in the end their Bushido is heroic.
Hiroshi Inagaki - Bandits on the Wind (Yato kaze no naka o hashiru) 1961-1122.mp4
General
Container: mp4
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
Size: 706 MB
Video
Codec: MPEG-4
Resolution: 1280x720
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 29.00 fps
Bit rate: 756 kb/s
BPP: 0.028
Audio
#1: Japanese 2ch @ 126 kb/s
Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None
Many thanks to @Horace H. for this copy
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Even more thanks are due to the youtuber in Summer 2018 who posted this among the mother lode of well over a 100 films, all from Toho 1950-1975, before he was knocked down.
To be clear, I was only interested in 20 of them at the time. I’m sure there were several more that I would have wanted now.
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this is a gem..thanks to Horace and to worldcinema for sharig
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Thanks a lot!