Black Lizard (film)
Black Lizard | |
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Directed by | Kinji Fukasaku |
Produced by | Akira Oda |
Music by | Isao Tomita |
Cinematography | Hiroshi Dowaki |
Edited by | Keiichi Uraoka |
Distributed by | Shochiku (Japan), Cinevista (U.S.A.) |
Release dates
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1968 |
Running time
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86 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Black Lizard (黒蜥蝪 Kurotokage) is a 1968 Japanese detective film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.[1]
The film is based on a 1934 novel by Edogawa Rampo[1] and its theatrical adaptation by Yukio Mishima, who, at the time, was the lover of Akihiro Maruyama, the actor who plays the notorious female criminal "Black Lizard" in drag.[citation needed]
The film's protagonist is Kogoro Akechi, a brilliant detective patterned on Sherlock Holmes who appears in several stories by Edogawa Rampo and is a fixture in Japanese popular culture.
The film currently has no official DVD release, and copies of the film are extremely difficult to find, but it has gained a cult following and is highly regarded by devotees of "kitsch" and "campy" films.[citation needed]
The novel Black Lizard has been published in English by Kurodahan Press in a dual edition with The Beast in the Shadow (aka Inju) [1].
Cast
- Akihiro Maruyama as “Black Lizard,” disguised as Mrs. Midorikawa
- Isao Kimura as Detective Kogorō Akechi
- Kikko Matsuoka as Sanae Iwase
- Junya Usami as Shobei Iwase
- Yūsuke Kawazu as Junichi Amamiya
- Kō Nishimura as Private Detective Keiji Matoba
- Toshiko Kobayashi as Hina
- Sonosuke Oda as Harada
- Kinji Hattori as Toyama
- Kōichi Satō as Ohkawa
- Jun Katō as Sakai
- Ryūji Funakoshi as Kōzu
- Mitsuko Takara as Show Dancer
- Tetsurō Tamba as Kuroki
- Yukio Mishima as a taxidermic Japanese human specimen
Other credits
- Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
- Rampo Edogawa: novel
- Yukio Mishima: stage adaptation
- Masashige Narusawa
- Art Direction: Kyōhei Morita
- Set Decoration by: Keinosuke Ishiwatari
- Costume Design by: Masako Watanabe
- Production Manager: Tatsuo Hagiwara
- Assistant Director: Hideo Ōe
- Sound Department
- Hirobumi Satō .... sound effects editor
- Toshio Tanaka .... sound
- Other crew
- Helen Milsted Eisenman .... subtitles editor (1985 re-release)
- René Fuentes-Chao .... presenter (English subtitled version)
- John R. Tilley .... presenter (English subtitled version)
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Kurotokage at IMDb
- Kurotokage at AllMovieInvalid ID.
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