I Will Buy You

I Will Buy You
I Will Buy You
Japanese	あなた買います
Directed by	Masaki Kobayashi
Written by	Zenzō Matsuyama; Minoru Ōno (novel);
Produced by	Masaharu Kokaji
Starring	Keiji Sada; Yūnosuke Itō; Keiko Kishi; Minoru Ōki; Eijirō Tōno; Mitsuko Mito;
Cinematography	Yuharu Atsuta
Edited by	Yoshiyasu Hamamura
Music by	Tadashi Kinoshita
Production; company	Shochiku
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	21 November 1956;
Running time	112 mins.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

I Will Buy You (あなた買います, Anata kaimasu) is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on a novel by Minoru Ōno.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot

Kishimoto is a talent scout for the Toyo Flowers baseball club, one of three competitors who try to buy new promising hitter Kurita for their team. While Kurita's shadowy benefactor and manager Kyuki, who financed the student's education, is making negotiations, Kurita's girlfriend Fudeko tries to talk him out of entering the professional baseball league. The competitors finally meet at the countryside home of Kurita's family, who have their own plans for their son and brother.

Cast

Keiji Sada as Kishimoto
Yūnosuke Itō as Kyuki
Keiko Kishi as Fudeko, Kurita's girlfriend
Minoru Ōki as Kurita
Eijirō Tōno as Ogushi
Mitsuko Mito as Ryuko, Kyuki's mistress

Reception

Film historians Donald Richie and Joseph L. Anderson wrote in their 1959 compendium The Japanese Film – Art & Industry that "Kobayashi lacked the power to present a really smashing indictment".^[4] In his Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day, Alexander Jacoby called I Will Buy You a "critique of commercial values in the world of sport" which benefited from the persona of actor Yūnosuke Itō.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "あなた買います (Anata kaimasu)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b "あなた買います (Anata kaimasu)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b "あなた買います (Anata kaimasu)". Shochiku (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 May 2022.
^ Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (1959). The Japanese Film – Art & Industry. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company. p. 285.
^ Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.

External links

I Will Buy You at IMDb

[jmdb-1] "あなた買います (Anata kaimasu)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 May 2022.

[kinenote-2] "あなた買います (Anata kaimasu)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 May 2022.

[shochiku-3] "あなた買います (Anata kaimasu)". Shochiku (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 May 2022.

[Anderson-Richie-4] Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (1959). The Japanese Film – Art & Industry. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company. p. 285.

[Jacoby-5] Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.

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