Rainbow man

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The Rainbow Man is a 1949 daiei film,Directed by Kiyohiko Ushihara.

## Plot

Mimi Torikai, who is a reporter from the Social Affairs Department, learned that the arson murder case that occurred at the villa of physicist Maya Ryuzo was a student friend and Ryuzo's second wife's niece, Yurie, and her colleague and lover Ryosuke Akashi.Trying to clear Yurie's innocence.

However, at Ryuzo's main house, people are killed one after another, leaving behind a maid, "It's a rainbow, it's a rainbow man!" In Ryuzo's mansion, there were a rainbow painter, Katsuto, and Toyohiko, who recently returned home. Inspector Okada, who went into an investigation into the Maya family with Yurie who was released on bail, finds that the Maya family are afraid of something about the "rainbow" and have a secret.

Furthermore, it was discovered that Ryuzo once stole a friend's research at the university and obtained a degree, Yurie's pregnancy, and his partner was Hachiro, a disciple who should have died in the first arson murder case. The incident deepens confusion.

## Cast

* Ryosuke Akashi-Keiju Kobayashi
* Mimi Torikai- Teruko Akatsuki
* Yurie Obata- Sumiko Wakasugi
* Inspector Okada-Den Obinata ( Shintoho )
* Katsuto Maya- Kenjiro Uemura
* Mitsuko Maya-Kiyoko Hirai
* Kane Nonomura- Kumeko Urabe
* Maya Ryuzo - Mimyo凡太Akira
* Toyohiko Maya- Junnosuke Miyazaki
* Town Doctor -Takemon Kahara
* Detective Shimizu- Tatsuo Hanabu
* Dr. Hirai- Tamotsu Moriyama
* Charcoal Burner-Shiroyuki Miyajima , Tadashi Sasaki
* Newspaper Reporter- Osamu Maruyama
* Nishizawa-Shin Atsumi
* Yamamoto- Yoshio Kitahara
* Secretary- Gen Harada
* Detective- Gakuya Morita , Shin Suzuki
* Maiden- Yoshiko Nagata

## Staff

* Director: Kiyohiko Ushihara
* Assistant Director: Mitsuo Murayama
* Planning: Hisakazu Tsuji , Kenji Kuroiwa
* Original: Kikuo Tsunoda
* Screenplay: Hajime Takaiwa
* Photo: Isamu Kakita
* Shooting assistant: Shigeo Itabashi
* Special shooting: Tatsuyuki Yokota , Eiji Tsuburaya (non-credit)
* Special photography assistant: Yoshihiro Sano
* Recording: Kenshi Yonezu
* Recording Assistant: Takeo Suda
* Lighting: Tsunekichi Shibata
* Lighting Assistant: Gentaro Takuma
* Art: Koichi Imai
* Art Assistant: Yoshio Onoe
* Equipment: Kiichi Ishizaki
* Props: Saburo Takeda
* Background: Katsura Nakamura
* Horticulture: Year Yoshida
* Craft: Yoshio Enomoto
* Illuminations: Shoji Senshin
* Hair: Masao Makino
* Hairdressing : Tsunee Tanaka
* Costume: Itoe Ohara
* Sound effects: Katsujiro Hanaoka
* Move: Saburo Kumazawa
* Steel: Tadao Miyazaki
* Record: Hide Horiki
* Music: Akira Ifukube
* Edited by: Masanori Tsujii
* Actor office work: Teruko Nakayama
* Production chief: Minoru Nakajima
* Mescaline Hallucinations: Yukio Togawa (Professor of Psychology, Waseda University)
* Color development technology: Fuji Photographic Film Technology Laboratory

## DVD

* VHS software was released as "Daiei Video Museum" from Daiei Video. In 1992, Pioneer released a laser disc. The DVD was released by Kadokawa Shoten in 2006.

## Overview

the film is Originally Based on the above-mentioned newspaper serialized work by Kikuo Tsunoda, it was released on July 18, 1949 (Showa 24) by the production of Daiei Tokyo Studio . Part color, standard, 81 minutes. The simultaneous screening is " Can crimes be prevented? The state of evil crimes ".

This is an epoch-making work in which a color film is partially inserted as an expression of hallucinations by the hallucinogenic substance mescaline . This was not a color image, but the contrast of colors such as red, blue, and yellow only appeared in the middle of the movie, but in Japanese movies where there was no color movie yet, even the appearance of colors on the screen was shocking. It was an attempt. It is said that Eiji Tsuburaya participates in the special effects part such as the phantom scene of Nijio  , but the details are unknown.

However, since the image of the color film part was not found, what can be viewed now is the restored version of the color part based on the testimony of the people involved in the production and those who watched the movie at that time.