Coup d'État (1973 film)

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]

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

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. "戒厳令". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  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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