Kobutori (The Old Man with the Lump)

192910 minfolktaleMuratafrom tape

Plays here, straight off our media box. Nothing is embedded from anywhere else.

DirectorYasuji Murata

Lengthabout 10 minutes

Source1980s TV airing on Betamax

Added2022-02-19

A straightforward telling of the folk story, with a long, lovely dance sequence in the middle that is the reason to watch.

This is the one film in the archive where our best source is a Betamax tape. The broadcast added a modern narration track; we kept the audio as broadcast and note the original was silent with benshi accompaniment.

Files

File	Size	What it is
kobutori-web.mp4	57 MB	web copy, H.264 720×480
kobutori-beta-1986.mkv	2.1 GB	full tape transfer, lossless on request