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The first Japanese colour film, Keisuke Kinoshita’s Karumen kokyo ni kaeru (Carmen Comes Home), starring Hideko Takamine, is released. It is filmed in Fujicolor. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Hakuchi, Akira Kurosawa's version of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, is released. The film stars Masayuki Mori and Toshiro Mifune. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Kenji Mizoguchi's Woman of Musashino, starring Kinuyo Tanaka and Masayuki Mori is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Kenji Mizoguchi’s Saikaku ichidai onna (The Life of O-Haru), the tale of the daughter of a samurai’s descent into poverty and prostitution is released. Kinuyo Tanaka stars as the luckless girl, and Toshiro Mifune is the man from a lower class with whom she falls in love. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Akira Kurosawa's Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi (The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail) is released seven years after its completion. American censors had previously forbidden its release due to its feudal ideology. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon After Rain), is released. The story, in which a poor porter is bewitched by a ghost, is an amalgamation of two 18th-century ghost stories by Akinari Veda and one by Guy de Maupassant. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Kenji Mizoguchi’s Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff), based on novelist Ogai Mori’s interpretation of an ancient Japanese legend, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Kenji Mizoguchi's 17th Century drama Chikamatsu Monogatari (The Crucified Lovers) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Kon Ichikawa’s Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese Harp) is released. The pacifist story is written by Ichikawa’s wife, Nato Wada. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Kenji Mizoguchi’s Akasen chitai (Street of Shame) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Film director Kenji Mizoguchi dies from leukaemia in Kyoto at the age of 58. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Akira Kurosawa's Kumonosu-Jo (Throne of Blood aka Castle of the Spider's Web), an interpretation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, is released. Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The premiere of Kon Ichikawa's Nobi (Fires on the Plain). [MUCH] [ADD] |
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Japan 1959: Other Films of Note |
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Waga ai (When a Woman Loves) (Heinosuke Gosho) [MUCH] [ADD] |
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– Production figures in Japan rise to 555 films in 1960 compared to 370 in 1954 [MORE] [ADD] |
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– EIRIN, the country’s film censorship body, rules that bedroom scenes and ‘outrageous activities’ must be handled with care to avoid arousing ‘indecent passions in the audience.’ [MORE] [ADD] |
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Japan 1960: Other Films of Note |
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Akibiyori (Late Autumn) (Yasujiro Ozu) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Hadaka no shima (Naked Island) (Kaneto Shindo) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Ototo (Her Brother) (Kon Ichikawa) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Seishun zankoku monogatari (Naked Youth) (Nagisa Oshima) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Taiyo no hakaba (The Sun’s Burial) (Nagisa Oshima) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well) (Akira Kurosawa) [MORE] [ADD] |