Coup d'État (1973 film)

Coup d'État
Coup d'État
Japanese name
Kanji	戒厳令
Revised Hepburn
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Kaigenrei
Directed by	Yoshishige Yoshida
Written by	Minoru Betsuyaku
Produced by	Mariko Okada; Takashi Ueno; Kinshiro Kuzui;
Starring	Rentarō Mikuni
Cinematography	Motokichi Hasegawa
Music by	Toshi Ichiyanagi
Production; companies	Gendai Eigasha; Art Theatre Guild;
Release date	7 July 1973 (Japan);
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Coup d'État (戒厳令, Kaigenrei), also titled Martial Law, is a 1973 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida.^[1]^[2] It is based on the life of nationalist intellectual Ikki Kita and an account of the attempted overthrow of the Japanese government by a group of army officers on 26 February 1936.^[3] It is the third film in a loose trilogy, preceded by Eros + Massacre (1969) and Heroic Purgatory (1970).^[4]^[5]

Cast

Rentarō Mikuni as Kazuki Kitamura
Yasuyo Matsumura as Suzu, Kazuki's wife
Yasuo Miyake as Young soldier
Akiko Kurano as Soldier's wife
Tadahiko Sugano as Nishida
Taketoshi Naitō as Army officer
Kei Iinuma as Iwasa
Kazunaga Tsuji as Heigo Asahi
Masako Yagi as Heigo's sister

Background

Coup d'État was Japan's submission to the 46th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[6]

Legacy

Coup d'État was screened at the Harvard Film Archive in 2009^[7] as part of a retrospective on Yoshida's work.

References

^ ^a ^b "戒厳令". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b "戒厳令(1973・日本)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 July 2023.
^ Jacoby, Alexander (2008). A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. p. 364. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.
^ Desser, David (1988). Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema. Indiana University Press. p. 73.
^ Wilkins, Budd (30 March 2017). "Review: Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism on Arrow Video Blu-ray". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
^ "List of Japanese films nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film" (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 22 June 2008.
^ "Coup d'etat". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 15 July 2023.