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The film emphasizes this statement by showing its audience that despite Japan's modernization, most of the Japanese people still lived and worked in ways which were effectively unchanged since the 17th century and even the white-collar Japanese man, once he arrived home, lived as his ancestors lived in the Middle Ages.
1945: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail: Akira Kurosawa: Susumu Fujita: Samurai film: MomotarÅ: Umi no Shinpei: Mitsuyo Seo: Propaganda Animation: Sanshiro Sugata Part II: Akira Kurosawa: Denjiro Okochi: Martial arts film: 1946: Aru yo no Tonosama: Teinosuke Kinugasa: A Descendant of Taro Urashima: Mikio Naruse: Susumu Fujita, Nobuo ...
until 21 April: Hisashi Imai; 21 April-19 August: Masami Hashimoto; starting 19 August: Yoji Tomosue; Iwate Prefecture: Tamemasu Miyata (until 21 April); Tamemasu Miyata (starting 21 April) Kagawa Prefecture: until 21 January: Yoshiji Kosuga; 21 January-21 April: Osamu Mori Izumi; 21 April-26 October: Masami Kimura; starting 26 October: Shogo ...
In the beginning of 21st century, Japan has been referenced numerous times in popular culture, which was a relatively successful one for Japanese film industry, returning to the idea of a second Japanese New Wave” in their cinematic releases. The country has appeared as a setting and topic multiple times in film, poetry, television, and music.
Film noir specialist Eddie Muller speculates this is the first time the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team, composed mostly of Japanese Americans, was acknowledged in a movie, and states that this was not simply the studio's formulaic trope of balancing something negative with a positive, but rather screenwriter Carl Foreman's ...
Strange Illusion is a 1945 film noir. Loosely inspired by Hamlet, it was envisioned as a modern crime film. It was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starred Jimmy Lydon, Warren William and Sally Eilers. According to noir historian Spencer Selby the film is "a stylish cheapie by the recognized master of stylish cheapies." [1]
Pages in category "Japanese neo-noir films" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Angel Dust ...
Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics). Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable, published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field, e.g.