牛乳屋フランキー (Milkman Frankie) 1956 All Ages
![Production still from Milkman Frankie 1956 / Director: Kō Nakahira / Image courtesy: ©1956 Nikkatsu](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m2obzhc2/production/80b3cd59b218b5a905f22f3e442f50362624ba46-1229x871.jpg?rect=44,70,1062,521&w=320&h=157&q=90&fit=crop)
Production still from Milkman Frankie 1956 / Director: Kō Nakahira / Image courtesy: ©1956 Nikkatsu / View full image
When
11.00am, Sat 7 Oct 2023 (83 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
About
Raised earnestly by his feudal grandfather in the countryside of Chōshū, Milkman Frankie is astonished by the strangers he encounters upon his arrival in Tokyo. Frankie possesses a unique combination of clumsiness and undying dedication reminiscent of bushidō samurai code. Committed to providing good service, he devotes his innovative imagination to saving a milk delivery business from bankruptcy – despite the ever-modernising Bulldog Milkmen poaching their customer base.
Although released in the same year, Milkman Frankie offers a remarkable counterpoint to the notoriously controversial Juvenile Jungle. A wildly adventurous glimpse into the chaos of urban life, it is an early reference point for Nakahira’s characteristic fearlessness in experimenting with contextually prevalent themes and freedom of form. A slapstick caricature ingeniously disguised within fine-tuned classic Japanese humour, Milkman Frankie thoroughly quenches a country’s implicit thirst for satire in the wake of post-war rapid industrialisation.
Milkman Frankie will screen from an imported 35mm print.
Production Credits
- Director: Kō Nakahira
- Script: Ruiju Yanagisawa, Katsumi Nishikiawa, Kō Nakahira
- Cinematographer: Masahisa Himeda
- Editor: Akira Suzuki
- Cast: Frankie Sakai, Sumiko Minami, Harue Tone
- Print Source: The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
- Rights: The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
- Year: 1956
- Runtime: 83 minutes
- Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Colour: Black & White
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 35mm