[KineJapan] Critical writing on Tanaka Kinuya's 月は上りぬ / Tsuki wa noborinu / The Moon Has Risen (1955)?

[quentin turnour]

Does anyone know of a signficant, 1000-word equivalent article either in Japanese, in another language, or in English but not apparently on-line accessible, about Tanaka Kinuya’s second film?

With Nikkatsu's restoration now doing the rounds - it screened as part of a package at last years’ Tokyo FF, and is also being released by Carlotta in Europe and Janus in the US and elsewhere - there might have been a fresh critical appraisal in Japanese?

Or something might have come out in Cinema Junpo or similar in 1955 that’s worth knowing about (- subject to any daunting republication fees, of course.)

Thanks for any thoughts.

Quentin Turnour
National Archives of Australia / Cinema Reborn Film Festival, Sydney (all opinions are my own, etc)