Guess the Movie

[Opsa]

My, they certainly look relaxed. Okay, Japanese movie. Looks like it was made in the late fifties or early sixties, judging buy the modern furniture. Correct?

[Swatopluk]

60ies

New pictures only later in the evening when I get back to my own computer

[Swatopluk]

OK, here is the turning moment of the film

[Opsa]

Okay, I just looked up "butterfly on scope" on Google images and way down the page I found a black and white photo of a Japanese man surrounded by butterflies. I followed the image to a webpage about a move called:
Branded To Kill,
and some of the photos match yours.

So I cheated! But I think I found it. It looks like a very cool movie and I would like to see it. Where the heck did you see it?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Opas cheating? No! How could you!? Anyone else but you!

[Opsa]

Hee hee hee! 

I blame Severe Movie Obscurity!

[Swatopluk]

It's not actually an obscure movie but a true classic and easily available in several DVD editions (including Criterion)

Personally I saw it recently in a Seijun Suzuki retrospective but I was aware of its existence years before that. But Yakuza films were not on my shortlist (I prefer classic Samurai movies).

I expected that the combination of butterfly and scope would be the decisive search hint. 'most dangerous chipmunk' would have been a quite direct way too. I deliberately started with images that gave no hint towards Japan. Originally I wnated to start with the clock but I noticed the company name on it.

Here is the trailer (looks like the whole movie is available on youtube too)

[youtube=425,350]5RGcIOjYgVc[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RGcIOjYgVc

[Opsa]

Eek! The trailer is quite disturbing, but I have to say that the shots are spectacular from an aesthetic standpoint.

[Swatopluk]

That film was the last straw for the studio bosses and they fired the director after 40 movies for 'making no sense and no money'.

[Swatopluk]

Since there seems to be no new contender, I'll have to provide the next riddle too.

[pieces o nine]

hmmmmm ... "man with cane" ...

Not The Wolf Man...
Not Charlie Chaplin...
Not The Elephant Man...
Not Batman's Joker...
Not The Daredevil...
Not Star War's  Yoda...
Not Fred Astaire...

[Swatopluk]

Not Orson Welles either despite some superficial similarity.
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No, this will not lead to any sex acts either on or off screen in the near future.

[Opsa]

I note that his arms are short in comparison to his body. Dwarfism?

[Swatopluk]

Well observed, Opsa.

Hello Mister. These gentlemen wanted to audition for Time Bandits. are we too early or too late for that? Myself, I had thought about Jeanne d'Arc, should Mr.Dreyer think about a remake. No, we are at least one dwarf short for doing a full production of that fairy-tale classic, Mr. Disney became famous with. Apart from that it is unclear whether one of them is female or not. Not something a US audience would appreciate.

[Griffin NoName]

Peter Pan meets Gulliver's Travels