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Title Giants & toys [videorecording Blu-ray] = kyojin to gangu / Daiei Motion Picture Co. ; produced by Hidemasa Nagata ; directed by Yasuzo Masumura ; screenplay by Ishio Shirasaka from a story by Ken Kaiko.
Publisher London, United Kingdom : Arrow Films, 2021.
Description 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.


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Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.
NOTE In Japanese with English subtitles.
Credits Cinematography, Murai Hiroshi; art direction, Shimogawara Tomoo ; music, Tsukahara Tetsuo.
Performer Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Hideo Takamatsu, Michiko Ono, Yunosuke Ito, Kyu Sazanka.
Summary Giants and Toys is a sharp and snappy corporate satire revolving around the ruthless machinations of a group of admen working in the confectionary industry. As a new recruit to the marketing department of World Caramel, fresh-faced graduate Nishi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) is eager to impress his ambitious and hard-nosed boss Goda (Black Test Car's Hideo Takamatsu), even if it strains his relationships with his college friend Yokoyama (Koichi Fujiyama) and budding love interest Masami (Michiko Ono), who work at the rival companies of Giant and Apollo. With World's lead over its competitors slipping badly, the two spot a chance to get back in the race in the shape of the pretty but unsophisticated 18-year-old, Kyoko (Hitomi Nozoe). Goda and Nishi get to work polishing this rough diamond as their new campaign girl, but as the three rival confectionary companies pitch themselves into an all-out advertising war that spills out onto the streets of Tokyo as it escalates to ludicrous extremes, Kyoko's newfound fame starts going to her head. Making its worldwide Blu-ray debut, this lurid adaptation of the award-winning 1957 novel by Ken Kaiko is considered a landmark in Japanese film history and a key work by Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast, Red Angel), one of the country's most highly acclaimed directors of his generation. Its absurdist and acidly cynical take on the excesses of the media and advertising worlds recalls the work of Frank Tashlin (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?), as it presents a garish vision of a bold new postwar Japan where traditional company values come head-to-head with American-style consumer capitalism.
Audience MPAA rating: Not rated.
System details Blu-ray; region A ; 2.35:1 aspect ratio; 1.0 mono; requires Blu-ray player.
Subject Corporate culture -- Japan -- Drama.
Advertising -- Japan -- Drama.
Genre Satirical films.
Comedy films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Add'l Names Nagata, Hidemasa, film producer.
Masumura, Yasuzō, 1924-1986, film director, screenwriter.
Shirasaka, Ishio, screenwriter.
Murai, Hiroshi, director of photography.
Kawaguchi, Hiroshi, 1905-1984, actor.
Nozoe, Hitomi, 1937-1995, actor.
Takamatsu, Hideo, actor.
Ono, Michiko, actor.
Ito, Yūnosuke, actor.
Sazanka, Kyū, 1914-1971, actor.
Other corporate author Arrow Films (Firm)
Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha.
Other title Kyojin to gangu
STANDARD # 760137569886
14110331
AV350 Arrow Films