Film Posters from the 1930s

[Sharon Hayashi]

Hi Sarah.
In 1995 the Kawasaki City Museum held an exhibition commemorating 100
years of cinema in Japan. There's a reproduction of the Naniwa Elegy
poster (an illustration of Yamada Isuzu holding a cigarette in front of
a blue background) in the catalogue of the exhibit and I think the
poster is in the National Film Center's collection. Both the Kawasaki
City Museum and the theater library(engeki hakubutsukan) at Waseda also
have limited collections of film posters from the 1930s but most of the
good stuff is in private collections. Good luck hunting.

Sharon Hayashi
University of Chicago

Sarah Teasley wrote:

>Dear KineJapan members,
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>I'm looking for two film posters from the mid-1930s, and was wondering if
>any KineJapan member might either know of their whereabouts or have a
>suggestion for how to find them.
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>The two films are "Shukujo ha nani wo wasureta ka" (Ozu Yasujiro, 1937,
>Shojchiku Ofuna) and "Naniwa elegy" (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1936, Dai-ichi Eiga
>Sagano). Neither the Shochiku head office stills department nor Shochiku's
>Otani Memorial Library have either the original posters or photographs of
>them, but I have seen images of both reprinted in books several years ago.
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>Thank you very much for your help.
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>Sarah Teasley
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>Sarah Teasley / batgirl at tkb.att.ne.jp
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>Ph.D. Candidate, Programme in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies
>University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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