ZAGREB
MUZEJ SUVREMENE UMJETNOSTI
12. 10. 2026.
20:00
ZAGREB
MUZEJ SUVREMENE UMJETNOSTI
12. 10. 2026.
20:00
Dvostruki program uz izvedbu Ichira Kataoke, benshija – pripovjedača za nijeme filmove i glazbenu pratnju pijanistice Makije Matsumure. | Double bill with a live performance by benshi Ichiro Kataoka, a narrator for silent films, accompanied by pianist Makia Matsumura.
HEROJ JIRAIYA | GOKETSU JIRAIYA 豪傑児雷也 | JIRAIYA THE HERO
Shozo Makino
HEROJ JIRAIYA | GOKETSU JIRAIYA 豪傑児雷也 | JIRAIYA THE HERO
Shozo Makino
Redatelj | Director: Shozo Makino
Snimatelj | Cinematographer: Minoru Miki
Glume | Cast: Matsunosuke Onoe (Jiraiya | Ogata Shuma), Shoen Kataoka (Takasago Yuminosuke), Suminojo Ichikawa (Orochimaru); Kijaku Otani (Tsukikage Gunryo Miyukinosuke); Chosei Kataoka (Tsunade-hime).
Produkcija | Production: Nikkatsu Taishogun Studio
Benshi: Ichiro Kataoka
Pijanistica | Pianist: Makia Matsumura
Dječak Shuma, koji će postati legendarni ninja Jiraiya, ostao je bez roditelja nakon ratnih stradanja u Sarashini, pokrajini Shinano. Već tada je ulovio monstruma groma Raiju, pa ga zovu Jiraiya: dijete koje je uhvatilo grom. Nakon ubojstva njegova oca Ogate Hirozumija, Shuma kreće na fantastično putovanje kako bi ga osvetio. Besmrtni pustinjak Senso Dojin daruje mu čarobnu tehniku žabe koja mu omogućuje da postane heroj Jiraiya. U montaži atrakcija, vodenih čuda, metamorfoza i nestanaka, Jiraiya savladava neprijatelje uz pomoć djevojke princeze Tsunade koja posjeduje magiju puža i suočava se sa suparnikom Orochimaruom koji se magično preobražava u zmiju.
Jedan od ranih japanskih ninjutsu filmova fantastike “oca japanskog filma” Shoza Makine s najpopularnijim glumcem nijemog razdoblja Matsunosukeom Onoeom unosi obrasce elemenata kabuki izvedbe, popularne kulture i otkrića filmskih trikova. Makino je pionir trik-filma tokusatsu, japanski Méliès, a s Matsunosukeom Onoem je od 1909. do 1926. snimio više od 1000 filmova, najčešće od jedne role. Dvostruke ekspozicije, zaustavljena kamera, životinjska čudovišta i koreografirani pokret pretvaraju tradicionalni repertoar preobrazbe u spektakl filmske domišljatosti. Priča o Jiraiyi pripada dugoj tradiciji japanske fantastične književnosti s poznatim imaginarnim bestijarijem u kome su životinjske preobrazbe nositelji nadnaravnih moći i posrednici između ljudskog i neljudskog svijeta. Središnji motiv transformacije razvija se oko trostrukog odnosa žabe-zmije-puža, cikličke nadmoći bez pobjednika sansukumi. Zasnovan je na Pripovijesti o Jiraiyinoj odvažnosti iz 19. stoljeća te odnosu koji persofinificiraju tri lika: Jiraiya za magiju žabe, Tsunade za magiju puža i Orochimaru za magiju zmije. Makino uprizoruje filmsko dvojstvo preobrazbe, lik Jiraiye i njegovi životinjski suigrači mijenjaju svoj oblik i stanje, a film otkriva vlastitu magiju metisa. Kompanija Nikkatsu navodi izvornu duljinu filma od 65 minuta, a sačuvanu filmsku atrakciju u trajanju od 21 minute dodatno preobražava i preozvučava interpretacija japanskog filmskog pripovjedača benshija Ichire Kataoke.
(Tanja Vrvilo)
Shuma, the boy who would become the legendary ninja Jiraiya, is orphaned amid the wartime devastation of Sarashina in the province of Shinano. Already as a child, he captured the thunder monster Raiju, earning the name Jiraiya: the boy who captured the thunder. When his father the castle lord Ogata Hirozumi is murdered, Shuma embarks on a fantastic journey to avenge him. The immortal hermit Senso Dojin bestows upon him the magical toad technique, enabling him to become the hero Jiraiya. In a montage of attractions, aquatic wonders, metamorphoses, transformations and disappearances, Jiraiya overcomes his enemies with the help of princess Tsunade, a young woman endowed with the magic of the slug, while confronting his rival Orochimaru, who magically transforms into a serpent.
One of the early Japanese ninjutsu fantasy films by the “father of Japanese cinema,” Shozo Makino and starring Matsunosuke Onoe, the most celebrated actor of Japan’s silent era, brings together elements of kabuki performance, popular culture, and the newly emerging language of cinematic trickery. Makino was a pioneer of the Japanese trick-film tokusatsu, a Japanese Méliès, and with Matsunosuke Onoe he made more than 1000 films between 1909 and 1926, mostly one-reelers. Double exposures, stop-camera effects, monstrous animals, and choreographed movement transform a traditional repertoire of metamorphosis into a spectacle of cinematic ingenuity. The story of Jiraiya belongs to a long tradition of Japanese fantastic literature, with its familiar imaginary bestiary in which animal transformations embody supernatural powers and mediate between the human and the non-human worlds. The central motif of transformation unfolds through the triadic relationship of toad-serpent-slug, a cyclical structure of mutual supremacy known as sansukumi, in which no one power ultimately prevails. The story is rooted in the nineteenth-century legend The Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant and in the relationship personified by its three protagonists: Jiraiya, associated with the magic of the toad, Tsunade with the magic of the slug and Orochimaru with the magic of the serpent. Makino stages the cinematic duality of transformation: Jiraiya and his animal counterparts continually shift between forms and states, while the film reveals its own magic of metis. Nikkatsu gives the film’s original running time as 65 minutes, while the surviving 21-minute fragment of Makino’s cinematic attraction is further transformed and re-sounded through the live interpretation of the Japanese film narrator, the benshi Ichiro Kataoka and pianist Makia Matsumura.
(Tanja Vrvilo)
