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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2001 |
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| Film Title |
EIKAN NAMIDA ARI |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[TEARS BEHIND VICTORY] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[LACRIME DIETRO LA VITTORIA] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1931 |
| Production Co. |
Fuji |
| Director |
Suzuki, Shigeyoshi |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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18 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 7429 ft. |
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110' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in giapponese / Japanese intertitles. |
| Cast |
Denmei Suzuki
Yuriko Hanabusa
Ichiro Tsukita
Shinichiro Komura
Dekao Yokowo |
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| Other Credits |
| Miura, Mitsuo (ph.) |
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| Other Information |
Günther A. Buchwald, pianoforte.
prima proiezione / released 31.12.1931 |
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| Program Notes |
Koichi Yuri and Shiro Minami are members of a rowing club at M. University. The two men love the same girl, Toshiko, the daughter of the keeper of an inn where they often stay for training. Shiro's brother Ichiro has a lover, Naoe, Koichi's sister - but Koichi and Shiro are completely unaware of the relationship. One day a newspaper reports the coming marriage of Ichiro and a millionaire's daughter. Disappointed, Naoe writes a letter to Koichi and leaves Tokyo. Learning about the situation for the first time, Koichi curses Ichiro and shakes off his buddy Shiro. On the big day of the boat race, Koichi and Shiro have to get on the same boat. During the race, they gradually start to work together, becoming friends again in the course of winning victory. After their triumph, Ichiro's father permits Naoe and Ichiro to marry.
Shigeyoshi Suzuki, the director of Nani Ga Kanojo Wo So Sasetaka (What Made Her Do It?, 1930), left Teikine to direct films at a new company, Fuji Eiga, which was founded in 1931 by three actors, Denmei Suzuki, Minoru Takada, and Tokihiko Okada. Having rather Westernized thinking about filmmaking, Suzuki wrote some articles for Close Up, the intellectual Swiss-British film journal, and imported some avant-garde films like La Coquille et le clergyman and Brumes d'automne in 1930. The genre of student film exemplified by Eikan Namida Ari may not be Suzuki's preferred one, but there are many beautiful scenes in it. Shot using panchromatic stock, the riverside scenes are extremely photogenic. - HK
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