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The Rickshaw Man

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The Rickshaw Man	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Rickshaw Man is a 1958 film from Japan, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki.It is set in the town of Kokura on Kyushu, in 1897 and for a couple decades afterward. Matsugoro (Toshiro Mifune) is a rickshaw man, a humble illiterate laborer who is nonetheless boisterous and full of life. One day he sees a small boy, Toshio, who is crying after he fell out of a tree. He whisks the boy home and thence, at the request of Toshio's mother Yoshika (Hideko Takamine), to a doctor. The boy isn't seriously injured but Matsugoro earns the gratitude of beautiful Yoshiko and her husband, Capt. Yoshioka, an officer in the army.Out of nowhere, Capt. Yoshioka contracts a fever and dies, leaving Yoshiko a widow. The cheerful Matsugoro offers to help Yoshiko raise her boy. Yoshiko gratefully accepts, but as the decades roll by she continues to regard Matsugoro as a faithful servant, unaware of the feelings he has for her.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })
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The Rickshaw Man / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Matsugoro is called "Wild Matsu" for his boisterous, hell-raising ways. He tells an amusing story about how he picked a fight with a guy who turned out to be a kendo champion for the local police. When he is denied free entry to a kabuki show (a customary perk for rickshaw men), he buys a ticket, cooks a stinky onion-and-garlic dinner in his box, and starts a brawl when they try to kick him out.
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The Rickshaw Man / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Matsugoro, unable to confess his love for Yoshika, runs away. He becomes a drunk before he passes out and freezes to death in the snow. The film ends with Yoshika, weeping, realizing she never paid him back for his devotion.
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The Rickshaw Man / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: Matsugoro never musters the courage to tell Yoshika how he feels, partly because she's of a much higher social status than he is, and partly because over all those decades she never gives him any kind of signal. When the moment seems to have finally come, he dashes out of her house, saying he'll never see her again.
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