Question from a Researcher in Berlin (1937 Die Tochter des Samurai/Atarashiki

[Dolores Martinez]

I seem to remember that Sessue Hayakawa spent some time in France and
Germany after leaving the US. but I only see French film titles on IMDB.
Lola.
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On 18 January 2011 17:44, <mccaskem at georgetown.edu> wrote:

> Dear Friederike Felbeck & Katherine Mezur,
>
> If you are looking for the oldest one on film, it's likely to be
>
> Atarashiki tsuchi/Die Tochter des Samurai 1937
>
> It was directed by Arnold Fanck. Fanck made very realistic
> mountain-climbing
> movies, etc. Some starring Leni Riefenstahl, whom Fanck "discovered," and
> who
> became a director perhaps partly inspired by him.
>
> Fanck seems basically to have been a fairly nice person. He did not
> capitalize on
> "NS Film" very much, and was more successful before 1933 than he ever was
> afterward. LR probably used her influence, and helped him get this 1937
> film
> project.
>
> It was billed as an international film. It was Hara Setsuko's first big
> role in film.
> Sessue Hayakawa was in  it, though not in a leading part. A Japanese actor
> named Kosugi Isamu played in  a sort of romantic triangle with Hara Setsuko
> and
> Ruth Eweler. Eweler was the German lead actress. Like Fanck, she did not
> thrive,
> and she died in her early 30s, probably of illness, a couple of years after
> WWII.
> Kosugi Isamu had a fairly long film career, but this 1937 film may have
> been the
> peak for him.
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028028/combined
>
> The YouTube extract below will provide a very good idea of the film. Hara
> and
> Hayakawa spoke their own lines in German, I believe. There is also a
> version with
> a fully Japanese sound track.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idpN4wBgpSc
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Michael McCaskey
> Georgetown Univ.
>
>
>
>
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