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| 25/3 - | The Nippon Gekkyo, a 4,000 seat cinema with three screens and giant organs, opens in Tokyo. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1/8 - | Madamu to nyobo (The Neighbour’s Wife), Heinosuke Gosho’s comedy starring Atsushi Watanabe and Kinuyo Tanaka is released. It is Japan’s first all-sound feature. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 27/5 - | Mikio Naruse’s Mushibameru haru (Lost Springtime) is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 3/7 - | Yazujiro Ozu’s Otona no mire ehon – Umarete wa mita kareda (I Was Born, But…), a lower middle class domestic drama, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| Chushingura – Zempn: Akahokyo no maki (The Loyal Forty-Seven Ronin) (Teinosuke Kinugasa) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| 23/11 - | Yasujiro Ozu’s Ukigusa Monogatari (A Story of Floating Weeds) premieres in Tokyo. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 15/8 - | Mikio Naruse’s Tsuma yo bara no yo ni (Wife, Be Like a Rose), starring his partner Sachko Chiba, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 30/9 - | Nikatse, one of the oldest film production companies in Japan, gives up production to concentrate solely on distribution after falling victim to the stock-market crash. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| Tokyo no yado (Yasujiro Ozu) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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The Toho Studios are founded in Tokyo with a capital of 500,000 yen. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Kenji Mizoguchi’s Gion no shimai (Sisters of the Gion), a sombre tale of two geishas, premieres in Tokyo. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– An evil Mickey Mouse appears in Black Cat Banzai, an animated Japanese propaganda short. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Zangiku Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Nishizumi senshacho-den (Kozaburo Yoshimura) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 8/12 - | Kenji Mizoguchi’s Genroku chushingura (The Loyal 47 Ronin – Part 1) is released for the Shochiku company. It marks a return for Mizoguchi to the jidai-geki (historical) genre. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 25/3 - | Sugata Sanshiro (Judo Saga), Akira Kurosawa’s first film, is released. It stars Susumu Fujita and Takashi Shimura. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 12/3 - |
Momotaro: Umi no shinpei (Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors) is released. Japan’s first animated feature, it is a propaganda piece commissioned by the Navy to improve the morale of Japanese youth. Japan surrender weeks later. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Occupying US forces ban pre-1945 Japanese films. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – Twenty-year-old Youth, the first Japanese film to contain an on-screen kiss, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1949 | ||||
| – Control of the film industry is handed over to the Independent Motion Picture Code Committee, signalling a return of sword-wielding jidai-geki films. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1950 | ||||
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Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura.is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1/9 - |
US occupying forces rout out key figures in the Japanese film industry believed to be involved in militarist and ultra-nationalist movements. [MORE] [ADD] |