"Red River"

Japanese: 《赤い河》 - あかいかわ
"Red River"

…He rose to stardom in 1939 with his role in Stagecoach, a masterpiece western directed by Ford. He gained popularity playing the role of a "war hero" in Corregidor (1945) and Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), and was also recognized as a first-class star with his acting ability and dignity in the western Red River (1948) directed by H. Hawks, in which he played a wide range of roles from a young cowboy to an older man. In subsequent Ford films such as The Yellow Ribbon (1949), The Quiet Man (1952), and The Searchers (1956), he played the main character who longs for a "family" but is rejected from it, and in Hawks films such as Rio Bravo (1959) and Hatari! (1962), he embodied the "John Wayne myth" as a hero with human kindness that was different from the conventional perfect hero. His distinctive walking style, called the "rolling walk," was a trademark that he developed with his close stuntman friend Yakima Canute (the stunt director for Stagecoach and the man who did all of John Wayne's doubles).

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "The Red River" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…39年,フォード監督の名作西部劇《駅馬車》で一躍スターの座に上った。《コレヒドール戦記》(1945),《硫黄島の砂》(1949)などで〈戦場の英雄〉を演じて人気を得,また,H.ホークス監督の西部劇《赤い河》(1948)で若き日のカウボーイから老け役まで演じて演技力と風格のある第一級のスターとして認められ,以後,《黄色いリボン》(1949),《静かなる男》(1952),《捜索者》(1956)などの一連のフォード作品では主として〈家庭〉にあこがれながらもそこからはじき出される主人公を,《リオ・ブラボー》(1959),《ハタリ!》(1962)などのホークス作品では従来の完ぺきなヒーローとは似て非なる人間的なやさしさをそなえたヒーローとしての〈ジョン・ウェイン神話〉を形象することになる。〈ローリング・ウォーク〉と呼ばれる,特徴ある歩きっぷりは,スタントマンの親友ヤキマ・カヌート(《駅馬車》のスタント監督であり,ジョン・ウェインの身代りをすべてやっている)とともに考え出したトレードマーク的歩き方であった。…

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