Re: Re: SOME SOURCE INFO re: Hayakawa, Itami Mansaku, & Atarashiki Tsuchi Variant

Tue Jan 18 21:48:51 EST 2011

hello,

The Itami version is available at the National Film Center in Tokyo. Also Naoki Yamamoto has published an excellent article in Japanese on the two versions of Atarashiki Tsuchi.

As for German-Japanese connection via Hayakawa Sesshu, there's a 1937 film, though in French, directed by Max Ohuls called Yoshiwara, co-starring Japanese diva Michiko Tanaka. Not a film with Greamn-Japanese actors, but an absolutely fascinating film.

Sincerely,

Ayako Saito

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> $BF|IU(B: 11/01/19 06:35
> $B7oL>(B: Re: SOME SOURCE INFO re: Hayakawa, Itami Mansaku, & Atarashiki Tsuchi Variant
> 
> Dear Professor McCaskey,
> thanks very much!
> that is really appreciated.
> I once met Itami's assistant editor for the project,
> and read the english version of the essay about the project [by one of
> authors on this wonderful list],
> but somehow I completely missed that there was an English version ....
> wow, maybe if I'm lucky I'll dream it tonight,
> and then tomorrow can claim to have seen it ;)
> 
> best,
> David
> 
> On 1/18/2011 10:19 PM, mccaskem at georgetown.edu wrote:
> > Dear David Blair,
> >
> > I did not feel right about leaving the matter hanging vaguely in space, so I went 
> > back and looked around.
> >
> > The text excerpts below tend to verify that Itami tried to make a variant 
> > version...but it was not so terrific. Itami had been put off by a number of cultural 
> > howlers in Fanck's film - products of what some would call "Orientalism" a 
> > decade ago.
> >
> > The characters are in a city, maybe Kyoto, which somehow is beside a raging 
> > volcano actually far away, and so on. Hara Setsuko and Ruth Eweler look at a 
> > very garish kimono-thing, that Japanese would not want to wear to a wedding 
> > or anywhere else. Itami had a dispute with Fanck about these things, so later he 
> > tried to make a revised version, in English and Japanese, trying to salvage the 
> > sets, and using many of the same technical people. But it didn't really work out.
> >
> > Then the Fanck version was a hit in Germany, with a premiere at the great big 
> > theater near the Zoo in Berlin, where "Metropolis" had premiered. Not only was 
> > Fanck's film praised in Germany (and of course Japan) - it was also shown in 
> > other countries.
> >
> > Release Dates 
> > Japan	 . 	3 February 1937 (Tokyo)
> > Germany	 . 	23 March 1937 (Berlin) (premiere)
> > Finland	 . 	21 November 1937
> > Sweden	 . 	7 April 1941
> > Also Known As (AKA)
> > Die Tochter des Samurai	 . 	Austria / Germany
> > Die Liebe der Mitsu	 . 	Germany (reissue title)
> > Mitsucho la figlia del samurai	 . 	Italy
> > Mitsuko	 . 	Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
> > N.r jorden brinner	 . 	Sweden
> > Samurain tyt.r	 . 	Finland
> > Tapfere kleine Mitsuko	 . 	Austria
> > The New Earth	 . 	(undefined)
> > The New Soil	 . 	(undefined)
> > http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0028028/releaseinfo
> >
> > So the idea that Itami was "rescuing" the film just did not seem to make sense 
> > any longer.
> >
> > I think maybe fragments of Itami's films either were shown at Tokyo MOMA in 
> > connection with the 1996 retrospective film show, referenced below, or were 
> > shown on TV around that time, or both.
> >
> > There's still the one blog bit I can't locate, but I now entrust this matter to you.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > mmcc
> >
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