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Tōjin Okichi (1930 Film)
''Tōjin Okichi'' (), ''Okichi, Mistress of a Foreigner'' or ''Mistress of a Foreigner'', is a 1930 silent drama film by Kenji Mizoguchi, based on the novel by Gisaburō Jūichiya. Only a fragment of the film has known to have survived. Cast * Kaichi Yamamoto * Yōko Umemura * Kōji Shima * Takihika Hisako Background Tazuko Sakane was a Japanese film director. She was Japan's first female director, followed by Kinuyo Tanaka. Her first feature film ''New Clothing'' (''初姿 Hatsu Sugata,'' 1936) is known to be the first Japanese feature film directed by a female. The ma ..., who later became the first Japanese woman director, served as script assistant and assistant director on the film. Jūichiya's novel was again adapted for film in 1937 under the title ''Tōjin Okichi Kurofune jōwa''. Home media A 4-minute-long sequence has been published on DVD as complement to Mizoguchi's '' Orizuru Osen'' by Digital MEME in 2007. References External links * 1930 films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Mizoguchi
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include '' The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums'' (1939), '' The Life of Oharu'' (1952), '' Ugetsu'' (1953), and '' Sansho the Bailiff'' (1954), with the latter three all being awarded at the Venice International Film Festival. A recurring theme of his films was the oppression of women in historical and contemporary Japan. Together with Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu, Mizoguchi is seen as a representative of the "golden age" of Japanese cinema. Biography Early years Mizoguchi was born in Hongō, Tokyo, as the second of three children, to Zentaro Miguchi, a roofing carpenter, and his wife Masa. The family's background was relatively humble until the father's failed business venture of selling raincoats to the Japanese troops during the Russo-Japanese War. The family was forced to move to the downtown district of Asakusa and gave Mizoguchi's older s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |