Re: Tenkô in Japanese film ?

[Michael McCaskey]

It just also occurred to me that Kurosawa's Shizukanaru ketto/The Quiet Duel (1949) might be an allegorical derivative of Wolfgang Staudte's Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946). I had never thought of it before, but the plots may have some similarities.

Michael McCaskey
Georgetown Univ.

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael McCaskey <mccaskem at georgetown.edu>
Date: Saturday, August 25, 2007 7:45 am
Subject: Re: Tenkô in Japanese film ?

> In Waga seishun ni kuinashi, the tenko didn't work, as I recall - 
> Masaki Kobayashi's
> Ningen no joken (1959-1961) might have something in it - I watched 
> the third part several years ago, but I haven't seen all 3 films 
> together since the 1960s.
> 
> Tsurumi Shunsuke, who once was a teacher of mine, and others in 
> the Shiso no kagaku group, did a large-scale series of Tenko case 
> studies in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Tsurumi Shunsuke et al, 
> Tenko, Shiso no Kagaku Kenyukai hen, Tenko, 3 vols. (Heibonsha, 
> 1959-1962). But Tsurumi told us that, in his opinion, so many 
> intellectuals had compromised with fascism that he and his 
> colleagues had a very hard time finding people for the Tenko 
> survey, since so many were in denial, or wished to conceal the 
> facts, and refused to participate.
> 
> There weren't so many searching postwar anti-fascist films of this 
> sort made in any WWII fascist-controlled country, maybe, except a 
> few like Wolfgang Staudte's Die Mörder sind unter uns (The 
> Murderers Are Among Us), starring Hildegard Knef (1946).
> 
> Michael McCaskey
> Georgetown Univ.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mathieu Capel <mathieucapel at gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, August 25, 2007 6:53 am
> Subject: Re: Tenkô in Japanese film ?
> 
> > One could think about Kurosawa's Waga seishun ni kuinashi (1946)...
> > 
> > Mathieu Capel
> > Paris
> > 
>