The Giant (1938)

Original title

巨人伝

Directed by

Mansaku Itami

Genre

Jidaigeki

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 06m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man in Edo-period Japan tries to start a new life after a long prison sentence. He adopts a young girl and raises her, but his past keeps catching up with him.

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What happens

The Giant (巨人傳, Kyojinden) is a 1938 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Mansaku Itami and based on the famous five-part novel Les Misérables by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. The film's setting was changed from France to Edo-period Japan. The great jidai-geki star Denjiro Okochi plays the Jean Valjean role, and an eighteen-year-old Setsuko Hara features as Cosette. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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