Coup d'État
Japanese name
Kanji戒厳令
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnKaigenrei
Directed byYoshishige Yoshida
Written byMinoru Betsuyaku
Produced by
StarringRentarō Mikuni
CinematographyMotokichi Hasegawa
Music byToshi Ichiyanagi
Production
companies
Release date
  • 7 July 1973 (1973-07-07) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time
110 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "戒厳令". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  2. 1 2 "戒厳令(1973・日本)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  3. ↑ Jacoby, Alexander (2008). A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. p. 364. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.
  4. ↑ Desser, David (1988). Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema. Indiana University Press. p. 73.
  5. ↑ Wilkins, Budd (30 March 2017). "Review: Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism on Arrow Video Blu-ray". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "Coup d'etat". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 15 July 2023.


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