Japanese musicals in the 30s and 40s

[anne mcknight]

There's a nice compendium-type 2-volume set called "Utaeba tengoku:  
NIppon kayō eiga deluxe." It hasn't been translated, but came out in  
1999, and the two volumes are called "heaven"/天 and "earth"/地--nice  
touch. It has plot summaries, credits, images, many references to  
musical movements (e.g. GS). Intriguing focus on the corporate  
musical, which is a bit later than the 30s~40s stuff you mention...

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%94%84%E3%81%88%E3%81%B0%E5%A4%A9%E5%9B%BD%E2%80%95%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%83%9D%E3%83%B3%E6%AD%8C%E8%AC%A1%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9-%E5%A4%A9%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%BB/dp/4889917004

On Feb 3, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Jasper Sharp wrote:

>
> One musical I know about was one of the one of the first ever sound  
> films in Japan, and the first feature film produced by P.C.L..
> Musical Comedy: Intoxicated Life (Ongaku kigeki: Horoyoi jinsei) was  
> directed by Kimura Sotoji and released in 1933.
> It was sponsored by Dai-Nippon Beer, and features a lot of singing,  
> dancing, and somewhat inevitably - drinking!
>
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> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:15:48 +0000
> From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Japanese musicals in the 30s and 40s
>
> Small world / narrow world, Jérémie !
>
> 'Oshidori utagassen' is credited as the Japanese movie being  
> projected in Parker's 'Come See the Paradise', 1990.  Within the  
> story, it's being shown in 'Little Tokyo', Los Angeles in, I think,  
> 1938, so it's slightly out but basically credible.
>
> I would also be interested in hearing, and seeing more.
> Roger
>
>
> --- On Fri, 3/2/12, =%ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9mie_de_Albuquerque?= <j.dealbuquerque at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
> From: =%ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9mie_de_Albuquerque?= <j.dealbuquerque at gmail.com 
> >
> Subject: Japanese musicals in the 30s and 40s
> To: kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Friday, 3 February, 2012, 11:32
>
> Dear All,
>
> I saw recently the movie Oshidori Utagassen by Masahiro Makino  
> (1939) at the French Cinematheque in Paris. The movie amazed me: I  
> was unaware of the existence of Japanese musicals in the 30s. I've  
> searched for information about the subject but I've found  
> practically nothing, only an article in French by Michael Baskett in  
> Diasporas n°4: “Empire et cinéma… : que le spectacle  
> commence !” and a reference in this article to the book Reframing  
> Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History, edited by Arthur  
> Nolletti & David Desser (I've bought the book but I don't received  
> it yet).
>
> Do you know any books or articles about Japanese musicals in the 30s  
> and 40s? I can read English, French and, if necessary, Spanish and  
> Portuguese, but not Japanese (my level isn’t good enough).
>
> Regards,
>
> Jérémie de Albuquerque
> http://hicsuntninjas.blogspot.com

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