Movies depicting the 'teens in Japan

[Alexander Jacoby]

If you are including older movies, there was a mini-boom of Taisho-era films in the fifties and into the early sixties. Ichikawa was interested in the period and made Kokoro / The Heart after Soseki Natsume's novel, set very precisely in 1912 at the time of the Meiji Emperor's death. His Ototo / Her Brother is also Taisho-era, though maybe later in the era (ie, early to mid-twenties). Toyoda's Mugibue / The Grass Whistle is a famous Taisho-era story, but I've not seen this and so know not as to whether it was early or late twenties. I'd have to look through my notes to confirm, but my instinctive response is that where films are set in the Taisho era, it's slightly more likely to be the early twenties than the teens. But I stand to be corrected.
   
  ALEX
  

"J.sharp" <j.sharp at hpo.net> wrote:
  Would Kaizo Hayashi's To Sleep so as to Dream qualify - cant remember if the
year is explicitly stated within the film...

Jasper


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Subject: Movies depicting the 'teens in Japan
Date: 03/03/07 18:34

> Watching Takahata's "Gauche the Cellist" (which seems to be set in 1915 or
thereabouts) last night, it dawned on me that one rarely sees the period
1910-1920 depicted in Japanese.  Can anyone else think of films that
depicts this decade in Japan?MEK

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