[KineJapan] Seeking info on "The Flame in the Fog" [sic] a silent film

[Markus Nornes]

 Hi Dan,

That still is breathtaking. I wonder if the film is extant. The Film
Archive doesn’t have it in their database. Maybe Shochiku has it. But you’d
have to ask. I notice Ozu’s screenwriter Noda Kogo wrote the script, so it
could be that is available at the Noda Kogo archive up in his old mountain
getaway in Tateshina.

I think most of Suzuki’s early work is lost. Here is what the NFAJ has.

Markus

No 映画題名 製作年月日 監督 製作会社
1 何が彼女をそうさせたか <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=45283> 1930 監督:鈴木重吉
帝国キネマ
2 東洋平和の道 <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=1306> 1938 監督:張迷生/監督:鈴木重吉
東和商事映画部[製作・提供]
3 榮冠涙あり <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=216> 1931 監督:鈴木重吉 不二映画
4 榮冠涙あり <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=13544> 1931 監督:鈴木重吉 不二映画
5 榮冠涙あり <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=86263> 1931 監督:鈴木重吉 不二映画
6 熊の出る開墾地 <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=453> 1932 監督:鈴木重吉 不二映画製作所
7 熊の出る開墾地 <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=13545> 1932 監督:鈴木重吉
不二映画製作所
8 進軍 <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=27163> 1930 監督:牛原虚彦 松竹キネマ株式会社
蒲田作品
9 進軍 <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=811> 1930 監督:牛原虚彦 松竹キネマ株式会社
蒲田作品
10 進軍 <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=83427> 1930 監督:牛原虚彦 松竹キネマ株式会社
蒲田作品
11 闇の手品 <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=82470> 1927 監督:鈴木重吉 本庄映画研究所
12 雁來紅 かりそめのくちべに <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=99438> 1934
監督:鈴木重吉 入江ぷろだくしよん[作品]
13 雁來紅 かりそめのくちべに <https://nfad.nfaj.go.jp/det.php?data_id=457> 1934 監督:鈴木重吉
入江ぷろだくしよん[作品]




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Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design




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On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 9:57 AM Dan Streible via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Curious about this film frame published in the journal *Close Up* (January
> 1929).
> https://archive.org/details/closeup04macp/page/n69/mode/2up
> The caption gives the English title *The Flame in the Fog**, *a  narrative
> feature filmed almost entirely during heavy natural fog. Someone on
> social media tells me JA.wikipedia says this is 霧の中の灯 (Light/Lamp in the
> Fog, 1926, Shochiku studio)
> [Google translate says "Kiri no naka no akari" = A LIGHT IN THE MIST.
> Thanks to "sae z. utte" on BlueSky.
>
> Elsewhere in the journal, director "J. Shige Sudzuky" [Shigeyoshi Suzuki]
> is identified as a prolific Japanese filmmaker, who had directed some 30
> films by then, often 'experimental' in style.
> Sudzuky wrote some articles for *Close Up* about Japan's movie industry
> in the late 20s and early 1930s. And the journal published a dozen or more
> images he supplied it from his own films. One said to be produced in
> Japan for Universal.
>
> The journal illustrated Andor Krazna-Krausz's 1932 book review of Rudolph
> Arnheim's *Film als Kunst* exclusively with frames from Sudzuky
> 'avantgardefilms,' including one titled *Jazz and Love. *The review does
> not refer to him or any of his films, or even to Japan.
>
> The only Suzuki's silent film I find much about in English is *What Made
> Her Do It?* (何が彼女をそうさせたか, *Nani ga kanojo o sō saseta ka*) 1930.
> That one is viewable.
> Are any other Suzuki silents availabe?
> Thanks for any leads.
>
>
>
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