Tokyo rapusodei

Tokyo rapusodei (1936)

01 Dec 1936 • Drama • 1h 8m
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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?

Osamu Fushimizu
Director
Ryûji Nagami, Takao Saeki
Writer
Ichirô Fujiyama, Sumie Tsubaki, Reiko Hoshi
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Language: Japanese
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Country: Japan
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7.1

IMDb (22 votes)
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