Japanese musicals in the 30s and 40s

[Jasper Sharp]

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


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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
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