new Touei-Film produced in Tokushima

[daniel gerber]

Good morning!

I'm sure some members of this always well-informed mailinglist already know, but for everybody else:

Touei is producing a movie in Naruto (Tokushima prefecture) about a detention camp for German soldiers during World War 1. The Chinese peninsula Tsing Tao was a German colony then, and when war broke out, Japanese troups occupied it. Some 4000 soldiers were brought to Japan in 1916 and put in several camps throughout the country. Naruto was the biggest camp with more than 1000 pow, but the commander of the camp thought, that they have fought bravely for their country so treated them pretty friendly. During the two years of their imprisonment they had nothing to do, so they tried to entertain themselves by founding a camp newspaper, building a bowling place etc. Some of them founded an orchestra with selfmade instruments and had concerts for the other prisoners and sometimes even for the Japanese people living near the camp. It was there where Beethoven's 9th symphony was performed for the first time in Japan and as you know, it is very popular until today. Actually, I think it's even more popular than in Germany!

So, Matsudaira Ken will be the protagonist, on the German side Bruno Ganz has been engaged. Because Touei needs a lot of extras I will go this Thursday and play a German soldier for four days. Should be fun, have to shave my head though...

Release is scheduled for June 2006, hopefully not only for Japan but for some other countries as well! Reading the script, I sometimes found it a bit cheesy, but it should be a nice, kind of moving picture (at least, aren't human beings all brothers and sisters, despite which country they come from... stuff like this).

Cheers, Daniel Gerber.




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