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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2001 |
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| Film Title |
CHOKON |
| Alternative Title 1 |
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| Alternative Title 2 |
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| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1926 |
| Production Co. |
Nikkatsu |
| Director |
Ito, Daisuke |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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18 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 814 ft. |
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12' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center |
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| Print Notes |
Incompleto: solamente ultimo rullo / Incomplete: last reel only
Didascalie in giapponese / Japanese intertitles. |
| Cast |
Denjiro Okochi
Yuzuru Kume
Utagoro Onoe
Yayoi Kawakami |
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| Other Credits |
| Watarai, Rokuzo (ph.) |
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| Other Information |
Günther A. Buchwald, pianoforte.
prima proiezione / released 20.11.1926 |
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| Program Notes |
| Only the last reel of this 8-reel feature survives. But the surviving images show how Daisuke Ito utilizes the visual style inspired by contemporary French cinema. Using the last 3 reels (more than 30 minutes) for the swordfight scenes, Ito displays virtually every element of the impressionist cinema: fast-moving camera, unusual camera angles, rapid cutting, double exposure, etc. The film depicts the tragic lives of two brothers in the late Edo period. Kazuma and his younger brother Tsugio love the same girl, Yukie. Tsugio loses his sight as the result of a sword fight. Yukie nurses Tsugio and gradually falls in love with him. Having lost everything dear to him, Kazuma gets into a desperate fight with an enemy and is killed. The title of this film, Chokon, is a word borrowed from the Chinese, meaning "the grudge that one cannot forget". - HK |
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