Japanese Films in archives?

Alexander Jacoby a_p_jacoby
Tue Dec 6 05:56:58 EST 2005


Hi Andreas,
   
  The Cinematheque Royale de Belge in Brussels has rare copies of at least two silent Japanese films which were sent to Europe in the twenties with the intention of distributing them - which never actually happened. The titles are Ai no Machi/Town of Love (1928, Tomotaka Tasaka), a superb melodrama about the reconciliation of capital and labour in a rather Westernised idiom (echoes of Murnau or Borzage, I'd say); and Fuun Joshi/Castle of the Wind and Clouds (1928, Toko Yamazaki, produced by Kinugasa) - a typical, but well-made, tragic samurai film of the time. The prints are unsubtitled - don't know how well you read Japanese, but if not well enough to follow rapid intertitles in pre-reform style, maybe you could take someone with you to translate!
   
  ALEX
  
 

		
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