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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2005 |
Light from the East: Celebrating Japanese Cinema
Shochiku 110 - Naruse 100 -- Prog. 12 |
| Film Title |
KOSHU SAHO TOKYO KENBUTSU |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[LE BUONE MANIERE IN PUBBLICO: VISITA TURISTICA A TOKYO] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[PUBLIC MANNERS: TOKYO SIGHTSEEING] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1926 |
| Production Co. |
Ministry of Education |
| Director |
Kaname Mori |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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20 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 4171 ft. |
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56' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center, Tokyo |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in giapponese sottotitolate in inglese / Japanese intertitles, English subtitles. |
| Cast |
| Kaoru Hose, Namiko Matsuyama, Sadakazu Yanagida, Hanako Kitamikado |
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| Other Credits |
| f./ph: Shigeru Shirai |
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| Other Information |
| Filmed in 1925 |
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| Program Notes |
| The Ministry of Education became aware of the importance of film as a medium for documentation and reportage through producing and showing the documentary film Kanto taishin taika jikkyo (The Cinematic Report on the Great Fire of the Great Kanto Earthquake; 1923) just after the Great Kanto Earthquake, and continued to produce educational films after that. In 1925 they produced as many as 20 films, including Kenji Mizoguchi’s dramatic film Furusato no uta (The Song of Home). Koshu saho Tokyo kenbutsu introduces the tourist spots of Tokyo just as the city is recovering from the earthquake damage. The film also shows what the Westernized and urban lifestyle was like at the time, and humorously highlights the geographical and psychological distance between the city and the countryside. Kaname Mori (1878?-?) was a veteran director who had started making films at Yoshizawa Shoten, and continued to direct a large number of period films at the Shochiku Kamata studio. By the time Mori directed this film he had moved to Teikoku Kinema, after the earthquake, and switched to making educational films. – FUMIKO TSUNEISHI |
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