A Tribute to the World's Greatest Unknown Moviemaker
A Tribute to the World's Greatest Unknown Moviemaker
Other Titles: Perspiration (alternative English title); Comedy: Sweat (literal English title) Production Company Nikkatsu Uzumasa (Kyoto) Scenarist Kobayashi Masashi Cinematographer Matsuzawa Matao Set Decorator Ikeda Enjiro Performers Shima Kōji (Kitayama Heizaemon, a wealthy heir); Yoshii Yasushi (Gembei); Takihana Hisako (Oshizu);…
Other titles: Their Own World (alternate English title); Naniwa Love Story, Story of a Love in Naniwa [i.e., Osaka] (literal English titles) Production Company Tōei (Kyoto) Scenarist Narusawa Masashige Producer Okawa Hiroshi Source The Courier for Hell (Meido no Hikyaku…
Other titles: Der Acker [The Field] (alternate German title); Ziemia (literal Polish title); Поле [“Pólye”: The Field] (alternate Russian title) Production Company Nikkatsu Tamagawa (Chōfu) Production Dates 1937 – 1939 (precise dates unknown) Scenarists Kitamura Tsutomu, Yagi Yasutarō Source Tsuchi…
Alternate Titles: Crab Temple Omen (literal English title); A Lenda do Templo do Caranguejo (Portuguese) Production Company Asahi Kinema Gomei-sha Co-directors Kimura Hakuzan (or Hakusan); Okuda Hidehiko Scenarist Unknown Cinematographer Fujii Shizuka Type of Film Animated short (silhouette animation) Status…
Alternate title: Twilight Beer Hall (literal English title) Production Company Shintoho Scenarist Nada Senzo Producer Sakaeda Seiichiro Cinematographer Nishigaki Rokurō Art Director Itō Toshikazu Music Akutagawa Yasushi Editing Kasama Hideo Performers Kosugi Isamu (Umeda Moichirō, a painter); Miyahara Takuya (Kenichi,…
Other titles: Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow; Forbidden Love, Love Not Again (alternate English titles); Love, love, don’t play with love (approximate literal English title); La renarde folle [“the mad fox”] (Venice Film Festival French-language title); La volpe folle [“the…
Other titles: Policeman, Police (alternate English titles); Policial (alternate Portuguese title) Production Company Shinkō Distributor Asakusa Denkikan Scenarist Yamauchi Eizo Source Takeda Toshihiko, Ōmori Bank Robbery (play) Cinematographer Aisaka Sōichi Art Director Mizutani Hiroshi Performers Nakano Eiji (Tomioka Tetsuo); Kosugi…
Other titles: A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji, Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (alternate English titles); Blood Spear, Fuji (literal English title); Le Mont Fuji et la lance ensanglantée (alternate French title); A Lança Ensanguentada (alternate Portuguese title) Production Company…
The Girl in the Book It all began, like most encounters with Japanese Cinema in the West, with Donald Richie. Many years ago, probably in the 1980s, I bought a coffee-table book by Mr. Richie – the great American popularizer…
