Samurai rebellion : Jōiuchi /

"Isaburo, a renowned swordsman, ... is the essence of samurai loyalty until his overlord demands the return of a former mistress, Isaburo's beloved daughter-in-law. The injustice to his family forces Isaburo to take a heroic stand for individual freedom and moves him towards a revolt he ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Jōiuchi.
Corporate Authors:	Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Public Media Incorporated (Wilmette, Ill.), Home Vision (Firm), Janus Films
Other Authors:	Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996, Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018, Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997, Tsukasa, Yōko, 1934-, Kato, Takeshi, Koyama, Shigeru, 1929-, Mishima, Masao, 1906-1973, Yamagata, Isao, 1915-1996, Ebara, Tatsuya, Matsumura, Tatsuo, 1914-2005, Ochiai, Saburō, Hamamura, Jun, 1906-1995, Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932-, Takiguchi, Yasuhiko, 1924-2004
Format:	Video VHS
Language:	Japanese
Language Notes:	In Japanese with new electronic English subtitles.
Published:	Chicago : Home Vision, [1997]
Edition:	Letterboxed.
Series:	Japanese classic collection.
Subjects:	Samurai films. Samurai > Drama. Insurgency > Japan > Drama. Japan > Social life and customs > 1600-1868 > Drama. Fathers and sons > Drama. Foreign films. Motion pictures, Japanese. Feature films.

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Summary:	"Isaburo, a renowned swordsman, ... is the essence of samurai loyalty until his overlord demands the return of a former mistress, Isaburo's beloved daughter-in-law. The injustice to his family forces Isaburo to take a heroic stand for individual freedom and moves him towards a revolt he can never win"--Container.
Item Description:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1967. Based on the novel by Yasuhiko Takiguchi. Digitally remastered. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	1 videocassette (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Format:	VHS.
Audience:	Not rated.
Production Credits:	Photography, Kazuo Yamada ; music, Tohru Takemitsu ; produced by Toshirō Mifune and Tomoyuki Tanaka ; screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto.
ISBN:	0780018702