1930s film set in Manchuria?

[Peter High]

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On Friday 09 December 2005 18:04, Melek Ortabasi wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> A reference question for the early film specialists out there. In the
> animated feature _Millennium Actress_, which makes many references to
> actual films, the protagonist's debut is in a late-1930's film in
> which she plays an (army?) nurse in Manchuria (Florence
> Nightingale-style beaproned look). _MA_ does very little to suggest a
> storyline; as elsewhere in the film, it's more about capturing the
> "look" and setting as a backdrop to the actress' story. I'm trying to
> figure out if it's just a general reference to the type of film that
> would have featured the colonies as an "exotic" locale, or whether
> this could possibly be an actual film. Does anyone know offhand?
>
> Best regards,
> Melek

    Although its not a nurse story (about a singer, actually, but there IS a hospital scene) your film sounds vaguely like Shimazu Yasujiro's 1941-42 *Watashi no Uguisu (My Nightingale), set in Harbin and starring Ri Ko Ran. It was a joint Toho-Manshu Eiga production. Until Hasumi Shigehiko and company discovered a small mountain of them in the old Soviet archives, we long assumed this was the only extant Man'ei film.
  Ri is adopted by her White Russian singing teacher, whom she adores until he dies. Chinese "bandit" skulduggery and wild chase scenes across the wild plains of Manchuria. Ring a bell?
  PB High



			
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