1925 Mizoguchi "The Earth Smiles"

[Frako Loden]

How disappointing! Thanks, Aaron.

Frako Loden

At 9:26 PM +0900 7/27/06, Aaron Gerow wrote:
>The Film Center people were already mentioning this last year when 
>we visited as part of Kinema Club (and this was later reported in 
>the papers), but it looks like the collection contains few of the 
>films Abe said it did. At most, it seems to have a lot of 
>documentary films or bunka eiga. It will still take a couple of 
>years to both check all that has been brought to the Film Center and 
>to make sure that everything Abe had has been brought to the Film 
>Center (some reports say that he had another storage space somewhere 
>other than his home), so nothing can be said for sure now. But I 
>would advise you not to keep your hopes up too high. At best, we 
>should be happy for small finds.