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Ichirô Fujiyama
- Ichiro Wakahara
- (as Ichiro Fujiyama)
Gorô Fukuchi
- Inomata
- (as Goro Fukuchi)
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Did you know
- ConnectionsReferences Swing Time (1936)
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Ichiro Fujiyama and Sumie Tsubaki have been sweet on each other since they were small children. Now she is trying to start a tea house, and he to make a go as a singer. Her business struggles, but he becomes popular; as he does, however, he pulls awy from her and the old gang.
It's a diagetic musical, inspired by the popular composition of the same name, with a standard plot, and performers who are not well remembered: pleasant enough, but unexceptional; even the opening shot, a pan across the Tokyo skyline, is one I've seen before in late silent and early sound movies from Japan. It's interesting to know that Toho was producing such a movie in the first year of all-sound production in Japan, and for the uncredited Third Assistant Director. You might have heard of him: Akira Kurosawa. What did he learn here? What did he add to his own directorial repertoire?
It's a diagetic musical, inspired by the popular composition of the same name, with a standard plot, and performers who are not well remembered: pleasant enough, but unexceptional; even the opening shot, a pan across the Tokyo skyline, is one I've seen before in late silent and early sound movies from Japan. It's interesting to know that Toho was producing such a movie in the first year of all-sound production in Japan, and for the uncredited Third Assistant Director. You might have heard of him: Akira Kurosawa. What did he learn here? What did he add to his own directorial repertoire?
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- Also known as
- Tokyo rapesodeii
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- Runtime1 hour 8 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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