Seven Miles to Nakayama

Seven Miles to Nakayama (1962)

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When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima committed suicide. Going underground in the gambling world, perpetually hiding from the law, Masa eventually meets a young woman named Onaka, who looks exactly like Oshima. Tales having two look-alike heroines are a commonplace in Japanese period films, a plot affectation inherited from the kabuki theater. Based on a novel by Shin Hasegawa, Nakayama shichiri was already twice filmed in 1930, one version directed by Namio Ochiai, and from which less than 40 minutes survive, the other directed by Kyotaro Namiki. Both are silent films, preserved by the Makino film institute.

Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Writers: Masao Matsumura, Masao Uno.

Casts

	Raizō Ichikawa as Masakichi
	Tamao Nakamura as Oshima / Onaka
	Eijirō Yanagi as Yasugoro
	Saburo Date as
	Koichi Ose as Tokunosuke
	Yukio Hashi as
	Nakajirō Tomita as
	Sonosuke Sawamura as
	Teruko Ōmi as
	Hisako Takihana as
	Mitsugu Terashima as
	Shinobu Araki as
	Kinya Ichikawa as
	Eigorō Onoe as

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