AW: Bordwell on Nippon: Liebe und Leidenschaft in Japan
Roland Domenig
roland.domenig
Wed Jul 25 18:12:05 EDT 2007
The film in question is a TV-drama and not a movie.
The drama directed by Horikawa Tonko was produced by
Tokyo TV and broadcast in two parts on February 11 and 12, 2007.
The DVD was released on April 27, 2007 by Kadokawa Eiga.
Roland
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Yes!
More information please about this film biography of Yamaguchi Yoshiko.
I'm familiar with the Japanese plays and musicals based on Yamaguchi's life,
but had not heard anything about a film.
Who made it? Who directed it? What is the title? When was it made?
Any additional information would be appreciated.
Peter Grilli
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Can you tell me more about this please - I never heard about it before.
Thanks
Jasper
"I've watched the first part of the recent fairly lengthy film biography of
Yamaguchi, starring Ueto Aya, which is fairly good - DVD 2, which I've not
yet seen, is about Yamaguchi's time in Shanghai, and I'll have to see if
Kawakita is portrayed as a key player."
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To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: Bordwell on Nippon: Liebe und Leidenschaft in Japan
Date: 25/07/07 08:31
>
> There is some valuable background information in English about these early
Japanese-German film connections in Janine Hansen's article "Celluloid
Competition: Japanese-German Film Relations, 1929-1945" in the book
Cinema and the Swastika, pp. 187-197. It would be great if this article
could be expanded into a book.
>
> There's also interesting information about Kawakita Nagamasa in Sato
Tadao's Nihon Eiga Shi, vol. 2, pp. 123-128. Kawakita was so well-known for
his film deals with the French and the Germans that he became a key manager
in the Japanese-Chinese film industry, mostly based in Shanghai, under the
Japanese Occupation. Though answerable to the Japanese military authorities,
he seems to have played a fairly positive role - letting the Chinese make
films pretty much as they wished, some of them even having some
anti-Occupation themes hidden in them.
>
> At the end of the war in 1945, according to Sato, Kawakita also seems to
have played a role in trying to keep his film crews and actors from being
pubished as collaborators with the Japanese Occupation. Also according to
Sato, Kawakita gave testimony which helped keep Yamaguchi Yoshiko/Ri
Koran/Shirley Yamaguchi from being imprisoned or executed as a collaborator,
and he and Yamaguchi went back to Japan together.
>
> I've watched the first part of the recent fairly lengthy film biography of
Yamaguchi, starring Ueto Aya, which is fairly good - DVD 2, which I've not
yet seen, is about Yamaguchi's time in Shanghai, and I'll have to see if
Kawakita is portrayed as a key player.
>
> Michael McCaskey
> Georgetown Univ.
> Wash DC
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:21 am
> Subject: Bordwell on Nippon: Liebe und Leidenschaft in Japan
>
> > I was reading David Bordwell's blog entry mourning the passing on
> Edward Yang and came across his fascinating description of a film >
that just showed at Cinema Ritrovato (dated July 6).
> > > _
> > > In the early 1930s, Japanese companies explored the possibility
of > > exporting their films to Europe and the US. One result of these
> initiatives was Nippon: Liebe und Leidenschaft in Japan, a 1932 >
German compilation created by Carl Koch. It originally consisted > of
> three films from the Shochiku studio, condensed and supplied with >
German intertitles. The original films were silent, so, oddly > enough,
> synced Japanese dialogue was added.
> > > > > In the version screened here, only two episodes were
presented. > What > beauties they were! Since many of the 1920s and
1930s Japanese > films > that survive look quite weatherbeaten, it
was wonderful to see, in > > the print from the Cin?math?que Suisse,
how gorgeous quite > ordinary > movies from this era could be.
> > > The first story, Kaito samimaro (orig. 1928), deals with a young
> samurai rescuing his beloved from the clutches of a corrupt >
priest. > Brisk and beautifully shot, it came to the sort of frothing
> swordplay > climax typical of the period-rapid cutting, dynamic
tracking, and > slashing assaults aimed at the camera. Kagaribi (1928),
about a > young > vassal betrayed by his corrupt lord, likewise ended
with a > protracted > action scene capped by a jolting climax. A
prolonged tracking shot > > follows the young man's former lover as
she backs away from him, > but > then we cut to a full shot. With a
single stroke he kills her, > jaggedly ripping a paper door in his
follow-through. Both stand > motionless for a moment before she falls. A
conventional finish, > but > no less eye-smiting for that. For more
on the power of this action-> > cinema tradition, see an earlier entry
on this site.
>
>
>
>
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