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Life of a Horse Trader

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Original title

Bakurô ichidai

Year

1951

Running time

113 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Keigo Kimura

Screenwriter

Keigo Kimura, Masashige Narusawa. Novel: Masao Nakayama

Cast

Music

Fumio Hayasaka

Cinematography

Shigeyoshi Mine (B&W)

Producer

Daiei Eiga

Genre

Drama | Family Relationships

Synopsis

Yonetaro Katakana is a a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's rugged northernmost territory of Hokkaido. He gets into fights, and he drinks and gambles his earnings away on a regular basis. Just before she dies of illness, his wife makes him promise to amend his ways in order to take care of their baby son Daihei.

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Life of a Horse Trader

1951

Keigo Kimura