chance to sub five films

[Michael E Kerpan]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 19:43, Aaron Gerow wrote:

> That said, my vote is for five prewar or wartime films. There's a lot
> written about in Burch, for instance, that is not readily available,
> such as Ito Daisuke, Ishida Tamizo, Yamanaka Sadao, or Itami Mansaku.
> Humanity and Paper Balloons has come out on DVD in the UK and the JF
> has a subtitled print of Hyakuman-ryo, but the subtitles on the latter
> are pretty bad. Films that I always show clips of in class include
> Makino Masahiro films such as Chikemuri Takadanobaba, Oshidori
> Utagassen and Awa no odoriko. I think there are a lot of people out
> there, especially outside of film studies proper, who would like to see
> more wartime films available like Hawaii-Malay okikaisen or Shina no
> yoru.

I was going to suggest Yamanaka's "Kochiyama Soshun" -- but "Million Ryo Pot" 
would also be nice.  I was also going to suggest Makino's "Oshidori 
utagassen".

I just ran across a wonderful, completely neglected Naruse film "Haru no 
mezame" starring a 16 year old Yoshiko Kuga and featuring a remarkably 
relaxed (and charming) look at the life of rural high school kids (much more 
impressive than Imai's later (and much better known)  "Aoi sanmyaku".  This 
wasn't included in the recent retrospective -- so perhaps it hasn't been 
subtitled.

Has Somai's "Ohikkoshi" been subtitled?  (No subtitled version has ever been 
available -- for home consumption). It's a wonderful film that should be much 
better known.  

MEK