蒲田行進曲 (1982)

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Fall Guy is a 1982 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, based on a play written and directed by Kōhei Tsuka, who also wrote the screenplay for the film.

Production

The property began as a play written and directed by Tsuka, premiering at Kinokuniya Hall in November 1980 with Akira Emoto in the Yasu role, and received the Kinokuniya Drama Award for 1980. Morio Kazama joined the company as Ginshiro in its second run in 1981, a role he would reprise in the film. The play continues to be performed around Japan including a version first adapted by Masaya Ishida for the Takarazuka Revue in 1996.

As the Japanese title of the play, Kamata Kōshin-kyoku, references Shochiku's Kamata studio, Okuyama aggressively pursued acquiring the rights to the play, believing that if another studio did it, it would affect their reputation.

Shochiku managed to leverage their interest in the casting of their contract player Matsuzaka in the Konatsu role, while Tsuka brought his stock players Kazama and Hirata in the Ginshiro and Yasu roles, all three of whom would go on to make several future films with Fukasaku. Toei's Kyoto Studio and its surrounding Uzumasa neighborhood became a character in itself, establishing itself as Japan's most iconic "backlot" location.

The rights to a further television version of the film was sold to TBS due to a budgetary shortfall during filming, which aired the following year in 1983. The broadcast was overshadowed by the suicide of Masaya Oki, who portrayed Ginshiro, the day before the airing of the 2nd part of the two part series.

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