Fall Guy

This article is about the 1982 Japanese film. For other uses, see Fall Guy (disambiguation).

Fall Guy
DVD cover to Fall Guy (1982)
Directed by	Kinji Fukasaku^[1]
Produced by	Haruki Kadokawa
Written by	Kouhei Tsuka
Starring	Morio Kazama Keiko Matsuzaka
Music by	Masato Kai
Cinematography	Kiyoshi Kitasaka
Edited by	Isamu Ichida
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release dates	October 9, 1982
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Fall Guy (蒲田行進曲, Kamata koshin-kyoku) is a 1982 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, art direction by Akira Takahashi. Among many awards, it was chosen as the Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.^[2]

"Kamata koshin-kyoku" is originally a title of the tune that covered song "Song of the Vagabonds" of operetta "The Vagabond King" of Rudolph Friml in 1929. This single was released as a theme tune of "Shochiku Kamata studio" that was the stage of the movie. Originally, Yutaka Kawasaki and Naoko Soga sang this tune. In the movie, Keiko Ishizaka, Morio Kazama, and Mitsuru Hirata are singing.

Cast

Keiko Matsuzaka as Konatsu
Morio Kazama as Ginshiro
Mitsuru Hirata as Yasu
Chika Takami as Tomoko
Daijiro Harada as Tachibana
Keizo Kanie as Film Director
Rei Okamoto as Toku-san
Hyoei Enoki as Tome
Nagare Hagiwara as Yuji
Toshiya Sakai as Makoto
Akihiro Shimizu
Nijiko Kiyokawa as Yasu's mother
Sonny Chiba as Actor
Hiroyuki Sanada as Actor
Etsuko Shihomi as Actress
Seizo Fukumoto
Akira Shioji as Yamada

Awards

4th Yokohama Film Festival^[3]^[4]

Won: Best Supporting Actor - Mitsuru Hirata
2nd Best Film

Bibliography

Kamata koshin-kyoku (1982) at the Internet Movie Database
蒲田行進曲 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
"KAMATA KOSHINKYOKU". The Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2009-05-06. External link in |publisher= (help)
蒲田行進曲 (in Japanese). www.walkerplus.com. Retrieved 2009-05-06. External link in |publisher= (help)
Behling, John (2005-04-12). "Fall Guy". www.midnighteye.com. Retrieved 2009-05-06. External link in |publisher= (help)
蒲田行進曲 (in Japanese). www.cinelier.jp. Archived from the original on April 5, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-06. External link in |publisher= (help)
蒲田行進曲 (in Japanese). Variety Japan. Retrieved 2009-05-06.

Notes

↑ Infobox data from 蒲田行進曲 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-06. and Kamata koshin-kyoku (1982) at the Internet Movie Database
↑ "Awards for Kamata koshin-kyoku (1982)" (in Japanese). Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
↑ 第４回ヨコハマ映画祭１９８２年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-04-01.
↑ １９８２年度　日本映画ベストテン (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-04-01.

Films directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Wandering Detective: Tragedy in Red Valley (1961)
Wandering Detective: Black Wind in the Harbor (1961)
Vigilante With a Funky Hat (1961)
Vigilante With a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm (1961)
High Noon for Gangsters (1961)
The Proud Challenge (1962)
Gang vs. G-men (1962)
League of Gangsters (1963)
Jakoman and Tetsu (1964)
Wolves, Pigs and People (1964)
The Threat (1966)
The Secret of the Diamond / The Kamikaze Guy (Kamikaze Man: Duel at Noon) (1966)
Rampaging Dragon of the North (1966)
Ceremony of Disbanding (1967)
Gamblers' Ceremony of Disbanding (1968)
Black Lizard (1968)
Blackmail Is My Life (1968)
The Green Slime (1968)
Black Rose Mansion (1969)
Japan's Most Violent Gangs: Boss (1969)
Bloodstained Clan Honor (1970)
If You Were Young: Rage (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (with Richard Fleischer and Toshio Masuda, 1970)
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
Street Mobster (1972)
Outlaw Killer: Three Maddog Killers (1972)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Cops vs. Thugs (1975)
Gambling Den Heist (1975)
Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976)
Yakuza Graveyard (1976)
Hokuriku Proxy War (1977)
Doberman Cop (1977)
Shogun's Samurai (1978)
Message from Space (1978)
The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
Virus (1980)
The Gate of Youth (1981)
Samurai Reincarnation (1981)
Dotonbori River (1982)
Fall Guy (1982)
Theater of Life (1983)
Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)
Shanghai Rhapsody (1984)
House on Fire (1986)
Sure Death 4: Revenge (1987)
A Chaos of Flowers (1988)
The Triple Cross (1992)
Crest of Betrayal (1994)
The Geisha House (1999)
Battle Royale (2000)
Battle Royale II: Requiem (with Kenta Fukasaku, 2003)

Awards

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film

Until We Meet Again (1950)
Repast (1951)
Lightning (1952)
An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Floating Clouds (1955)
Mahiru no ankoku (1956)
The Rice People (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Kiku to Isamu (1959)
Her Brother (1960)
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Foundry Town (1962)
The Insect Woman (1963)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Red Beard (1965)
Shiroi Kyotō (1966)
The Fossil (1974)
Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
Third Base (1978)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Kagemusha (1980)
Muddy River (1981)
Fall Guy (1982)
Tokyo Trial (1983)
MacArthur's Children (1984)
Ran (1985)
House of Wedlock (1986)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
The Silk Road (1988)
Dotsuitarunen (1989)
Childhood Days (1990)
A Scene at the Sea (1991)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
All Under the Moon (1993)
Like a Rolling Stone (1994)
A Last Note (1995)
Boys Be Ambitious (1996)
Bounce Ko Gals (1997)
Hana-bi (1998)
Taboo (1999)
Battle Royale (2000)
Spirited Away (2001)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003)
Nobody Knows (2004)
Break Through! (2005)
Hula Girls (2006)
Kisaragi (2007)
Climber's High (2008)
Mt. Tsurugidake (2009)
Confessions (2010)
Cold Fish (2011)
Our Homeland (2012)
A Story of Yonosuke (2013)
Samurai Hustle (2014)
The Emperor in August (2015)

Hochi Film Award for Best Film

The Inugamis (1976)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
Third Base (1978)
Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko (1979)
Kagemusha (1980)
Enrai (1981)
Fall Guy (1982)
The Family Game (1983)
The Funeral (1984)
And Then (1985)
Comic Magazine (1986)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
Tomorrow (1988)
Untamagiru (1989)
Sakura no Sono (1990)
My Sons (1991)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
All Under the Moon (1993)
A Dedicated Life (1994)
A Last Note (1995)
Shall We Dance? (1996)
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)
Hana-bi (1998)
Spellbound (1999)
Face (2000)
Go (2001)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Doing Time (2003)
Nobody Knows (2004)
Always Sanchōme no Yūhi (2005)
Hula Girls (2006)
I Just Didn't Do It (2007)
Departures (2008)
Shizumanu Taiyo (2009)
Villain (2010)
Rebirth (2011)
Key of Life (2012)
The Great Passage (2013)
0.5 mm (2014)

Japan Academy Prize for Best Film

The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
The Incident (1978)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Zigeunerweisen (1980)
Station (1981)
Fall Guy (1982)
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
The Funeral (1984)
Gray Sunset (1985)
House on Fire (1986)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
The Silk Road (1988)
Black Rain (1989)
Childhood Days (1990)
My Sons (1991)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
A Class to Remember (1993)
Crest of Betrayal (1994)
A Last Note (1995)
Shall We Dance? (1996)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Begging for Love (1998)
Poppoya (1999)
After the Rain (2000)
Spirited Away (2001)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2003)
Half a Confession (2004)
Always Sanchōme no Yūhi (2005)
Hula Girls (2006)
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Departures (2008)
Shizumanu Taiyō (2009)
Confessions (2010)
Rebirth (2011)
The Kirishima Thing (2012)
The Great Passage (2013)
The Eternal Zero (2014)
Our Little Sister (2015)

Mainichi Film Award for Best Film

1946–1960	Aru yo no Tonosama (1946) Ima Hitotabi no (1947) Drunken Angel (1948) Late Spring (1949) Until We Meet Again (1950) Repast (1951) Ikiru (1952) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) Floating Clouds (1955) Mahiru no ankoku (1956) The Rice People (1957) The Ballad of Narayama (1958) Kiku to Isamu (1959) Her Brother (1960)

1961–1980	A Soldier's Prayer (1961) Harakiri (1962) High and Low (1963) Woman in the Dunes (1964) Red Beard (1965) Shiroi Kyotō (1966) Samurai Rebellion (1967) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968) Double Suicide (1969) Where Spring Comes Late (1970) Silence (1971) The Long Darkness (1972) Tsugaru Folk Song (1973) Castle of Sand (1974) The Fossil (1975) Fumō Chitai (1976) The Yellow Handkerchief (1977) The Incident (1978) Nomugi Pass (1979) Kagemusha (1980)

1981–2000	Muddy River (1981) Fall Guy (1982) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) W's Tragedy (1984) Ran (1985) The Sea and Poison (1986) A Taxing Woman (1987) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Black Rain (1989) Childhood Days (1990) My Sons (1991) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992) All Under the Moon (1993) A Dedicated Life (1994) A Last Note (1995) Shall We Dance? (1996) Princess Mononoke (1997) Begging for Love (1998) Poppoya (1999) Face (2000)

2001–present	Spirited Away (2001) The Twilight Samurai (2002) Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003) Blood and Bones (2004) Break Through! (2005) Sway (2006) I Just Didn't Do It (2007) Departures (2008) Shizumanu Taiyō (2009) Villain (2010) Postcard (2011) A Terminal Trust (2012) The Great Passage (2013) My Man (2014) Three Stories of Love (2015)

Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film

1927–1940	Ashi ni sawatta onna (1927) A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1928) Jobless Samurai (1929) Beheading Place (1930) What Made Her Do It? (1931) The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1932) I Was Born, But... (1933) Passing Fancy (1934) A Story of Floating Weeds (1935) Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1936) Sisters of the Gion (1937) Limitless Advance (1938) Five Scouts (1939) Earth (1940)

1941–1960	Kojima no haru (1941) The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1942) The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay (1943) Morning for the Osone Family (1947) A Ball at the Anjo House (1948) Drunken Angel (1949) Late Spring (1950) Until We Meet Again (1951) Early Summer (1952) Ikiru (1953) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1954) Twenty-Four Eyes (1955) Floating Clouds (1956) Darkness at Noon (1957) The Rice People (1958) The Ballad of Narayama (1959) Kiku to Isamu (1960)

1961–1980	Her Brother (1961) Bad Boys (1962) Being Two Isn't Easy (1963) The Insect Woman (1964) Woman in the Dunes (1965) Red Beard (1966) The Great White Tower (1967) Samurai Rebellion (1968) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1969) Double Suicide (1970) Where Spring Comes Late (1971) The Ceremony (1972) The Long Darkness (1973) Tsugaru Folk Song (1974) Sandakan No. 8 (1975) Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1976) The Youth Killer (1977) The Yellow Handkerchief (1978) Third Base (1979) Vengeance Is Mine (1980)

1981–2000	Zigeunerweisen (1981) Muddy River (1982) Fall Guy (1983) The Family Game (1984) The Funeral (1985) And Then (1986) The Sea and Poison (1987) A Taxing Woman (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1989) Black Rain (1990) The Cherry Orchard (1991) My Sons (1992) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1993) All Under the Moon (1994) A Dedicated Life (1995) A Last Note (1996) Shall We Dance? (1997) The Eel (1998) Fireworks (1998) Wait and See (2000)

2001–present	Face (2001) Go (2002) The Twilight Samurai (2003) A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2004) Nobody Knows (2005) Break Through! (2006) Hula Girls (2007) I Just Didn't Do It (2008) Departures (2009) Dear Doctor (2010) Villain (2011) Postcard (2012) Our Homeland (2013) Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2014) The Light Shines Only There (2015) Three Stories of Love (2016)

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