Nihon no Fixer
| Nihon no Fixer The Fixer | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Yasuo Furuhata |
| Screenplay by | Kōji Takada |
| Produced by | Gōrō Kusakabe |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Hajime Kaburagi |
| Distributed by | Toei |
Release date |
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Running time | 131 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The Fixer (Japanese: 日本の黒幕, Hepburn: Nihon no Fixer)[1] is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata.[2][3] Inspired by Lockheed bribery scandals. Modeling on Kakuei Tanaka and Yoshio Kodama, the film depicts the collusion between Japanese right-wing organizations and the political and business world.[4] Nagisa Oshima was due to direct this film.[5]
Plot
[edit]Recently elected Japanese Prime Minister, Hirayama with higher popularity than the previously recently elected Prime Minister due to his policy that benefited the middle-lower class society and promise to do so even after being elected as Prime Minister and his policy for massive buildup in Japan.[6] However unbeknown to much of the public that Hirayama made a shady deal with a kuromaku or behind-the-scenes power broker, Yamaoka and a giant Aircraft manufacturing company Randolph Corporation (loosely based on Lockheed) that led him to being elected as Japanese Prime Minister.[6]
Meanwhile Yamaoka a prominent Yakuza figure who was the behind-the-scenes power broker that made Hirayama Prime minister of Japan, is currently hiding at his large mansion due to being pursued for violating the Foreign Exchange Law and tax evasion in a fraudulent case involving the sale of Randolph Corporation Aircraft. His mansion was heavily guarded by Yamaoka security forces on feared of assassination attempt.[6] His mansion is also being crowded by protester reporter. However one day a boy managed to sneak-in into Yamaoka mansion and tries to kill Yamaoka. However the boy failed because Yamaoka right-hand man, Imaizumi stops him. Instead of killing the boy who tried to kill Yamaoka, Yamaoka makes the boy as his Koichi and makes him his subordinate.[3][7][8]
Cast
[edit]- Shin Saburi as Yamaoka (modeled after Yoshio Kodama)
- Masakazu Tamura as Imaizumi
- Kayo Matsuo as Masako Yamaoka
- Kyoko Enami as Toshiko Yamaoka
- Akira Nakao as Dan
- Seizō Fukumoto as Nakahashi
- Harumi Sone as Yutaka Ikeuchi
- Junkichi Orimoto as Tsunuma
- Ryunosuke Kaneda as Prime Minister Hirayama (modeled after former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka)
- Maki Tachibana as Kayoko Sawai
- Masataka Iwao as Yuji Maejima
- Etsushi Takahashi as Masao Kaga
- Nenji Kobayashi as Shunsuke Mizumaki
- Ichirō Nakatani as Yoshino
- Kunie Tanaka as Tatsuo Ryuzaki
- Noboru Nakaya as Suzumura
- Ichirō Arishima as Heikichi Shibuya
- Mikio Narita as Yasuzo Morishima
- Chomei Soganoya as Tasuo Osanai
- Tatsuo Umemiya as Takayoshi Oguri
References
[edit]- ^ "The Hawaii Herald - Hawaii's Japanese American Journal".
- ^ "日本の黒幕とは". kotobank. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
- ^ a b "日本の黒幕". 一般社団法人 日本映画製作者連盟・. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
- ^ 大島渚著作集〈第3巻〉わが映画を解体する』 現代思潮新社、2009 p.290-292 ISBN 9784329004611
- ^ あの暑かった夏のこと 内藤 誠 - 日本映画監督協会 - Directors Guild of Japan内藤誠 監督ばか 彩流社、2014 p.154-160 ISBN 978-4-7791-7016-4
- ^ a b c "Nihon No Don". TV Tropes. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
- ^ "日本の黒幕". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ^ "日本の黒幕". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
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