Uchida's Tsuchi

[Michael Kerpan]

Thanks for the information, Roland.

It's a shame that swuch an important film did not survive intact -- but a miracle (I guess) that it returned from the cinematic grave (even in partial form).

Do you know whether the additional material in the Moscow version is at the beginning -- or at the end? (And is the Moscow version also subtitled)?

I wonder if this version will ever turn up on DVD.

MEK

----- Original Message ----
From: Roland Domenig <roland.domenig at univie.ac.at>
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 8:26:40 AM
Subject: Re: Uchida's Tsuchi

In Japan all prints of Uchida Tomu's Tsuchi were destroyed during the war and the film was thought lost until in 1968 a print was discovered in the Filmarchive of the German Democratic Republic in Eastberlin. This abbreviated and German subtitled print (the subtitles, by the way, were made by Iwasaki Akira), which was most likely brought to Germany in 1939 after the film was shown at the Venice Film Festival, is 92 minutes long, 48 minutes shorter than the original. In the late 1990s another print of Tsuchi was found in the Gosfilmfond Archive in Moscow. This print is 23 longer than the one found in East-Berlin, but still 25 minutes shorter than the 140 minutes original version. A complete version does not exist (or has not yet surfaced). 

Roland Domenig
Institute of East Asian Studies
Vienna University



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