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Shin Heike Monogatari (新・平家物語, lit. "New Tale of the Heike") is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is based on a prose version by Eiji Yoshikawa of a Japanese epic poem, The Tale of the Heike. It is Mizoguchi's second and last film in color, the other being Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Yōkihi) of the same year.
Shin, Heike monogatari: Yoshinaka o meguru sannin no onna: Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. With Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyô, Fujiko Yamamoto, Hideko Takamine. The story of Yoshinaka and the three women who love him.
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But because the high courtiers dislike career soldiers gaining power and influence, they ignore the will of ex-Emperor Toba and refuse to reward the captain.
In feudal Japan, decadent nobles and rising samurai clans engage in a vicious power struggle. The strife reaches a boiling point when Tadamori (Ichijirô Oya), leader of the samurai clan, is...
Shin Heike Monogatari (新・平家物語, Shin Heike Monogatari, lit. The New Story of the Heike) is a 1955 Japanese drama film produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company, and based on a 1961 novel of the same name written by Eiji Yoshikawa.
Shin Heike Monogatari is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is based on the Eiji Yoshikawa historical novel Shin Heike Monogatari. It is one of his two films in color, the other being Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (Yōkihi) of the same year.
Set at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era of peace, this tale of “Heike” focuses on Taira Kiyomori who fights alongside other members of his clan to at first successfully overcome the Minamoto clan and their bid for power.
