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

[mccaskem at georgetown.edu]

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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