A Billionaire (1954)

- Original title
- 億万長者
- Directed by
- Kon Ichikawa
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A quiet tax clerk learns to expose fraud. A man builds an atomic bomb to avenge his family killed in Hiroshima. These and other odd characters including a poor couple with eighteen children, a crooked politician, and a scheming geisha get tangled in slapstick comedy that mocks postwar issues like tax evasion, corruption, poverty, and nuclear weapons.
sillyfast-pacedsatiricalabsurdenergeticchaoticplayfulbiting
What happens
『億万長者』(おくまんちょうじゃ)は、 1954年11月22日に新東宝で公開された青年俳優クラブ製作の日本映画。同時上映は『最後の女たち』。久我美子が毎日映画コンクール女優助演賞を受賞。 無口で小心者の税務署徴税係だったが不正摘発に目覚める館香六、広島の原爆で一家が全滅した仇を討つため独学で原爆を開発する鏡すてを中心に、子供を十八人も抱え貧困のドン底にある贋十二夫婦、悪徳政治家の団海老蔵、策士の芸者花熊らが織りなすドタバタ喜劇。脱税、収賄、人口爆発、貧困格差、原水爆問題など戦後の矛盾を独特のタッチで風刺する。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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