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[Aaron Gerow]

Komatsu Hiroshi has an article in Film History in 2005 where he  
discusses the collaboration between Universal Studios (the US  
company), Bando Tsumasaburo (known as Bantsuma--not Hansai), and  
Tachibana Ryosuke. It also includes mentions of Suzuki's films  Aoi  
ga (Blue Moth) and Hibari (Skylark) and a still from Aoi ga.

Since this was not a long-lived venture (really only 6 months), it is  
unlikely that Suzuki made anything other than the three you mention  
for this venture. A brief glance at other films made by the venture  
also didn't produce any similar film titles, so my impression is that  
the works mentioned in Close Up were just titles arbitrarily made up  
by some publicist.



Aaron Gerow
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Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University

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