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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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