Lost films

Mark Schilling schill
Sun Oct 12 08:31:56 EDT 1997


In addition to Shigeyoshi Suzuki's Nani ga Kanojo wo Sosasetaka, a "lost"
silent produced by Teikoku Cinema and discovered in Russia four years by
Teruo Yamakawa, the grandson of Teikoku Cinema's founder, the Nippon Cinema
Classic section will be screening: 

Oya (1929, dir: Tadamoto Okubo, Hirsohi Shimizu, cast:Jun Arai, Mitsuko
Takao, 35 mm, silent, 35 min) 

Bakudan Hanayome (1935, dir: Seisuke Sasaki, cast: Reiko Tani, Sayoko
Yanai, 35 mm, silent, 35 min)

Oichi no Kata (1942, dir: Akira Nobuchi, cast: Chikako Miyagi, Ryutaro
Otomo, 35 mm, 88 min)

Osaka Chonin (1942, dir: Kazuo Mori, cast: Kozaburo Ramon, Itoji Koto, 33
mm, 70 min) 

Nippon Cinema Classics coordinator Sadao Yamane and Committee for the
Centenary of Cinema chairman Shiguehiko Hasumi lead a team that discovered
the four films in the Russian National Film Archive (Gosfilmfond) in the
course of a two-year search in Russia. 

This information is from Tokyo FF press materials on the Nippon Cinema
Classics section.

Regards,
Mark Schilling (schill at gol.com)  

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