In a village in Manchuria, a group of Japanese settlers struggle against the elements to create wet rice paddies.
En 1936, el director Tomu Uchida llevó al cine la primera parte de la novela El teatro de la vida, que basándose en el retrato de la corrupción de un hombre y la mujer que desairó, se centra en la juventud del personaje.
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.
Hachirô Momokawa
Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse