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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2010 |
Three Shochiku Masters: Yasujiro Shimazu, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kiyohiko Ushihara |
| Film Title |
ASHITA TENKI NI NAARE |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[Domani sarà un bel giorno] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[May Tomorrow Be Fine] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1929 |
| Production Co. |
Shochiku |
| Director |
Yasujiro Shimazu, Yoshio Nishio |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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18 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 1261 m. |
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61' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center, Tokyo |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles |
| Cast |
| Shoichi Kofujita (Yoshikazu-kun), Jun Arai (suo padre/his father), Choko Iida (sua madre/his mother), Hidemaru Handa (Katsuhiko-kun), Mitsuko Takao (la sorella maggiore/his older sister), Reikichi Kawamura (suo padre/his father), Chitose Hayashi (sua madre/his mother), Yoko Kozakura (la signorina/the young miss), Kenichi Miyajima (il padre di lei/her father), Mitsuko Yoshikawa (la amdre di lei/her mother), Ryuji Nishiyama (domestico/the houseboy) |
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| Other Credits |
| scen: Tatsuo Imai; f./ph: Shinichi Nagai |
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| Program Notes |
Ashita tenki ni naare received first prize in a competition for educational film scenarios sponsored by the education department of Tokyo city. The story concerns two boys, Katsuhiko and Yoshikazu, who find two newborn puppies that have been abandoned. The family of Katsuhiko, who is the son of a wealthy academic, take to the dog and treat it kindly, naming it Jack. By contrast, Yoshikazu’s father, a carpenter, is worried about the money it will cost to take care of the other dog, but Yoshikazu agrees to use his own pocket money to look after it. He names it Oro. However, Jack and Oro are actually the puppies of a dog owned by a young girl. They had been thrown out by her father after their birth, but the sad girl wants them back.
This sentimental story is in a long tradition of Japanese stories about the relationship between human beings and dogs, typified most famously by the tale of Hachiko, the Greyfriars Bobby of Japan, whose statue stands outside Shibuya Station in Tokyo, and whose story has been retold on film both in Japan and in a recent Hollywood version starring Richard Gere (Hachi: A Dog’s Story, 2009). Within the Japanese cinema, the tradition of stories about dogs has continued into the 21st century, including films such as Joji Matsuoka’s Sayonara Kuro (2003) and Yoichi Sai’s Quill (2004).
ALEXANDER JACOBY & JOHAN NORDSTRÖM
(Questo film era stato originariamente commissionato dal Ministero dell’Istruzione che conservò per decenni i materiali sopravvissuti, affidandoli poi al National Film Center, ex ente statale./This film was originally commissioned by the Ministry of Education, which kept the only surviving element for decades, and then entrusted its ownership to the previously state-run National Film Center.)
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