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

Sat Jul 11 05:16:14 EDT 2026

 Hello Dan,
I am inclined to think that the photo caption regarding the fog is one of those exaggerations found at the time in written media about films, especially foreign film.Fog in early film always had very specific functions to relate the exotic (Chinatown, I am guessing in Yokohama) and the foreignness of the port and its unforeseeable dangers.Shochiku's laconic website lists the film:https://www.shochiku.co.jp/cinema/database/00611/
Suzuki's Japanese Wiki shows a certain amount of activity in the mid 1950s for Toei:https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%88%B4%E6%9C%A8%E9%87%8D%E5%90%89I am attaching a clip from (probably) KineJun where you can see another still, no fog present, and a synopsis.
María-José González

    On Saturday, 11 July 2026 at 05:58:56 PM GMT+9, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  

  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 | 1930 | 監督:鈴木重吉 | 帝国キネマ |
| 2 | 東洋平和の道 | 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 | 1931 | 監督:鈴木重吉 | 不二映画 |
| 4 | 榮冠涙あり | 1931 | 監督:鈴木重吉 | 不二映画 |
| 5 | 榮冠涙あり | 1931 | 監督:鈴木重吉 | 不二映画 |
| 6 | 熊の出る開墾地 | 1932 | 監督:鈴木重吉 | 不二映画製作所 |
| 7 | 熊の出る開墾地 | 1932 | 監督:鈴木重吉 | 不二映画製作所 |
| 8 | 進軍 | 1930 | 監督:牛原虚彦 | 松竹キネマ株式会社 蒲田作品 |
| 9 | 進軍 | 1930 | 監督:牛原虚彦 | 松竹キネマ株式会社 蒲田作品 |
| 10 | 進軍 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1934 | 監督:鈴木重吉 | 入江ぷろだくしよん[作品] |

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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/2upThe 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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