Nariakira Mito
Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007.
Hattori, the Manager
가난한 성악가 후지무라 요시오는 낡은 방에서 호텔 청소부 아야코와 행복한 나날을 보내고 있다. 어느 날 우연히 요시오의 노래를 들은 한 부자의 딸이 그에게 도움을 주고 후지무라는 큰 성공을 거둔다. 그러나 유명해진 후지무라는 아야코를 무시한 채 상류사회의 달콤함에 빠져든다. 실제 테너가수로 유명했던 후지와라 요시에가 직접 출연해 주목을 받았던 작품.
Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the tramp’s clothes, he has to accept work as a labourer. As the hero ends up building the mausoleum he had himself commissioned.
Kōhei Akizuki
The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of footage has survived.
