Tōjin Okichi (1930 Film)
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''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 ...
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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


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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 {{1930s-Japan-film-stub