<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">These are amazing. Thank you! On first glance, I see #8 is Takamine Hideko. Love the modernist katakana signature. <div><br></div><div>Markus<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 3, 2024, at 2:06 PM, William M. Drew via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>
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<div class="userEdit" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I believe the last one in this group, no. 11, is Denmei Suzuki (1900-1985). A very popular star who also did some directing, he was a former athlete who was unusually tall (5'10") for a Japanese male of that era. He was often paired with Kinuyo Tanaka and they became a kind of Japanese counterpart of Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor. Suzuki, it should be noted, was a good friend of the legendary Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., an admirer of the prewar Japanese cinema who, in the '30s, attempted to obtain distribution of Japanese films in the West. </span></span></div>
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<br>In a message dated 12/3/2024 7:35:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu writes:
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<div class="yiv6521559425WordSection1"><p class="yiv6521559425MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Hi,</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="yiv6521559425MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">I have a collection of Japanese gramophone needle tins which feature Japanese Kinema Stars from the 30’s & 40’s. Each one features their image and signature. Here is an example.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="yiv6521559425MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span id="cid:VRvPZXqMh3Co37VtWO4d"><image002.jpg></span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="yiv6521559425MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">What I am trying to do is identify who they are so that I can write something about them in a book I am planning to write. This is where I need your help!</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="yiv6521559425MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Here is a link to all the tins in the series I currently have. <a href="https://www.thetincollector.com/kinema-stars" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.thetincollector.com/kinema-stars</a></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="yiv6521559425MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="yiv6521559425MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Cheers</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="yiv6521559425MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Adrian </span></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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