《Enoken's Hard Work Tactics》 - Enoken's Hard Work Tactics

...However, the extant versions of both works are shortened versions with many jokes and highlights cut out, and the absence of the latter's "Escape from the Cauldron Punishment" is particularly regrettable. Rather, the flavor of the stage can be seen in the persistent humor of the long shot of Nakagawa Nobuo's "Enoken's Hard-Working Tactics" (1939), which remains in its entirety, in which the fake masseuse Enoken and customer Kisaragi Kanta have a massage that escalates into a sort of wrestling match. He also gave excellent performances in unusual roles in Makino Masahiro's "The Man Who Was Waiting" (1942), in which he co-starred with Hasegawa Kazuo, and in Kurosawa Akira's "The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail" (released in 1952), which was made around the time of Japan's defeat in the war....

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…ただし両作品とも，現存するのは多くのギャグや芸の見せ場をカットされた短縮版で，とりわけ後者の〈釜いりの刑脱出〉のくだりの欠除は惜しい。むしろ，完全に残っている中川信夫監督の《エノケンの頑張り戦術》(1939)の，にせあんまエノケンと客の如月寛多のマッサージからレスリングもどきにエスカレートするどたばたを，長回しで撮ったしつっこいおかしさに舞台の味がうかがわれる。ほかに，長谷川一夫と共演したマキノ正博(雅弘)監督の《待って居た男》(1942)や，敗戦前後に作られた黒沢明監督の《虎の尾を踏む男達》(1952公開)などに，異色の役どころで好演。…

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