Inuzuka Minoru

[Aaron Gerow]

I actually conveyed the question to a film studies list. We'll see what 
others come up with.

> I was thinking of Oliveira, which is why I didn't say the thought that 
> initially occured to me of "last director to have made silent films" - 
> since Oliveira's short documentary Douro - Faina Fluvial (1931) is 
> silent. Having said that, I could have said "Was Inuzuka the last 
> director to have made silent features"?

The problem with saying "silent features" is that there were some 
countries, like Korea, that were making silent features into the 1940s 
due to various historical circumstances. Japan, of course, was 
releasing silent features up until about 1937. Perhaps restricting the 
question to the 1920s helps avoids these differences in circumstance.


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

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