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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2010 |
Three Shochiku Masters: Yasujiro Shimazu, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kiyohiko Ushihara |
| Film Title |
KANGEKI JIDAI |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[L’età dell’emozione] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[Age of Emotion] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1928 |
| Production Co. |
Shochiku |
| Director |
Kiyohiko Ushihara |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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18 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 383 m. |
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19' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center, Tokyo |
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| Print Notes |
(dal/from 9.5mm)
Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles |
| Cast |
| Denmei Suzuki (Ishikura), Kinuyo Tanaka (Mihoko), Eiji Mita (Kashiwagi), Chieko Matsui (Junko), Dekao Yoko (studente A/Student A), Tokuji Kobayashi (studente B/Student B), Tatsuo Saito (insegnante/the teacher) |
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| Other Credits |
| Hyakusuke Yoshida; f./ph: Bunjiro Mizutani |
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| Other Information |
| (Il National Film Center ha restaurato questo film nel 1998 a partire dall’unico elemento rimasto, un Pathé-Baby 9.5 ridotto e rimontato e donato da un collezionista privato. / The National Film Center restored this film in 1998 from the only extant element, a 9.5mm Pathé-Baby shortened and re-edited version donated by a private collector.) |
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| Program Notes |
This significant film, about a young man torn between love and friendship, is thought have to been the finest of the college stories that Ushihara directed after returning from his time in Hollywood at the Chaplin Studio. It continued the pairing of Denmei Suzuki and Kinuyo Tanaka, who had already starred together in Ushihara’s earlier film Modern Warriors’ Training (Kindai musha shugyo, 1928), and helped to cement the stardom of the then teenaged actress Tanaka. The film was highly praised by contemporary critics: the Kinema Junpo reviewer, Juzaburo Suzuki, admired the makeup, Denmei Suzuki’s acting, and Ushihara’s direction, which, he asserted, placed the film among the finest achievements to date of Japanese cinema. “I think it likely,” he wrote, “that people who have previously criticized Ushihara’s work will cast their reservations aside and want to shake his hand.” Sadly, only a fragmentary copy survives of this important work, but it still displays the freshness and vitality of Ushihara’s direction.
ALEXANDER JACOBY & JOHAN NORDSTRÖM
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