The Lost World of Sinbad
Time Out says
So little of the Japanese popular cinema reaches Britain that it's been hard to judge whether the movies are as fanatically Americanised as most of the other Japanese mass media. Here is Exhibit A for the Prosecution: a Western-style swashbuckling fantasy which the dubbers have been able to turn into a Sinbad story without missing a beat. Although it's by no means rank, it remains the kind of film that gives a 'formula' a bad name. All the ingredients are there, including decent, if limited, special effects, but the emphases are curiously misjudged: there's too much plot, Mifune's presence goes for nothing, the comedy is hopelessly non-integrated, and the Gothicisms are too perfunctory. But the saddest thing is the bland rejection of the entire Oriental fantasy tradition.
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Release details
Duration:
97 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Senkichi Taniguchi
Screenwriter:
Takeshi Kimura, Shinichi Sekizawa
Cast:
Toshiro Mifune
Makoto Satoh
Jun Funato
Ichiro Arishima
Mie Hama
Takashi Shimura
Makoto Satoh
Jun Funato
Ichiro Arishima
Mie Hama
Takashi Shimura