Japanese-German film relations

[Roger Macy]

Another Shinoda film with a strong German connection must be his latest 'Spy Sorge', 2003.

Which also prompts me to mention that a  write-up of the film by Keiko McDonald appeared posthumously last year in the book 'Patriots and Traitors: Sorge and Ozaki' edited by J. Thomas Rimer.

Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia films were fitted out for each market with home-country star performances from the 1936 games.  Nagamasa Kawakita recounts in his 'Recollections' that these were the hits of 1940 in Japan - a time-lag that seems incomprehensible today but must in part be related to the cancelled Tokyo 1940 games.

Kawakita had serviceable German and recounts numerous business connections.  These include the Karl Koch recompilation, with models made in Germany,  'Nippon'.
Roger

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Maihime/Die Tänzerin (1989) by Masahiro Shinoda, a film about the japanese writer Mori Ogai's stay in Berlin.

Ode an die Freude (2006) by Masanobu Deme, a film about german war prisoners in Japan during First World War.
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