''Tōjin Okichi'' (), ''Okichi, Mistress of a Foreigner'' or ''Mistress of a Foreigner'', is a 1930
silent drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
by
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 ' ...
, 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
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1930 films
1930 drama films
1930 lost films
1930s Japanese films
1930s Japanese-language films
Films based on Japanese novels
Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Japanese black-and-white films
Lost Japanese films
Nikkatsu films
Silent Japanese drama films
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