von Sternberg's 'Morocco' in Japan?

[Sarah Frederick]

In a very belated answer to Joanne Izbicki's post back in October, I 
just found a nice reference -- a Japanese poster for _Morocco_ is 
reprinted in a catalog that I checked out from Harvard.  The catalog 
is for the Kawasaki-shi Shimin Museum, exhibit called _Shinema no 
seiki: Eiga tanjou 100 nen hakurankai_ from 1995.  Asahi Shinbunsha 
printed the catalog.  Unfortunately the poster does not seem to 
mention the year, only referring to a "February 1" opening at the 
$BFa3Z:B(J (Narakuza?).  The poster explains in some detail the 
subtitling that Markus mentioned, thanks to which it promises to be a 
"Zettai ni wakaru suburashii touki!"

And yes, _Morocco_ is mentioned in Ozaki Midori's Eiga mansou as Tom 
Lamarre wrote.  Those appeared in the journal _Nyonin geijutsu_ which 
stopped publication in 1932. That series is in her collected works 
which are now available.

Sarah Frederick

Joanne,

There are Kobayashi Hideo's reference to the film in his essay on literature
of the lost home (1931) (IQ(J trans. Paul Anderer.  Ozaki Midori (if I recall
correctly) reviews it in her 'Eiga mansou' (also early 30s) (IQ(J I can check
the date for you.  Have you looked in some of the reprints of the film
journals cerca 1929-30?

cheers,

Tom
>  I am trying to find out if von Sternberg's 1930 film 'Morocco' starring
>  Marlene Dietrich played in Japan in the 1930s and/or during the Allied
>  occupation sometime between 1945 and 1949.  It probably was distributed at
>  some point but can anyone refer me to clear evidence as to when and where it
>  might have shown?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Joanne
>  j.izbicki at att.net
>  OR
>  jizbicki at ithaca.net
>
-- 
Sarah Frederick
Assistant Professor of Japanese
Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
Boston University