Seven Miles to Nakayama (中山七里) 62 years old

When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima committed suicide. Going underground in the gambling world, perpetually hiding from the law, Masa eventually meets a young woman named Onaka, who looks exactly like Oshima. Tales having two look-alike heroines are a commonplace in Japanese period films, a plot affectation inherited from the kabuki theater. Based on a novel by Shin Hasegawa, Nakayama shichiri was already twice filmed in 1930, one version directed by Namio Ochiai, and from which less than 40 minutes survive, the other directed by Kyotaro Namiki. Both are silent films, preserved by the Makino film institute.

Credits

Tamao Nakamura as Oshima / Onaka

Saburo Date as

Raizō Ichikawa as Masakichi

Shinobu Araki as

Eijirô Yanagi as Yasugoro

Seven Miles to Nakayama Cast

Name	Character
Tamao Nakamura She was 22, now 85 years old	as Oshima / Onaka
Saburo Date He was 38, 67 years old when he died
Raizō Ichikawa He was 30, 37 years old when he died	as Masakichi
Shinobu Araki He was 71, 77 years old when he died
Eijirô Yanagi He was 66, 88 years old when he died	as Yasugoro

Seven Miles to Nakayama Crew

Name	Department
Kazuo Ikehiro as Director. He was 32 (now 95) years old	Directing
Seiichi Ota as Art Direction. He was 17 (now 79) years old	Art
Senkichirô Takeda as Director of Photography.	Camera
Tetsuo Tsukahara as Original Music Composer. He was 37 (69) years old when He died	Sound
Gengon Nakaoka as Gaffer. He was 46 (now 15) years old	Lighting

Seven Miles to Nakayama (62 years)

Release day: Sunday, May 27, 1962
Runtime: 87 minutes