Tsunekichi Shibata

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.

니혼바시 거리에 ‘이나바야’라는 게이샤 하우스가 들어선다. 이나바야의 주인인 오코와 최고의 미인 기요하는 남자들의 선망의 대상이다. 매춘부인 누나를 찾던 가츠라기는 우연히 누나를 닮은 기요하를 만나 사랑에 빠지지만 기요하는 이를 거절한다. 그런데 낙담한 가츠라기는 우연히 오코를 만나 다시 반하고 만다. 이즈미 교카의 원작을 각색한 작품.

니혼바시 거리에 ‘이나바야’라는 게이샤 하우스가 들어선다. 이나바야의 주인인 오코와 최고의 미인 기요하는 남자들의 선망의 대상이다. 매춘부인 누나를 찾던 가츠라기는 우연히 누나를 닮은 기요하를 만나 사랑에 빠지지만 기요하는 이를 거절한다. 그런데 낙담한 가츠라기는 우연히 오코를 만나 다시 반하고 만다. 이즈미 교카의 원작을 각색한 작품.

Pedestrian traffic on a square, somewhere in Tokyo.

'Armed Robber Shimizu Sadakicchi' is considered Japan's debut film and came on the heels of the country obtaining its first film camera. It famously was only a couple of minutes' long as its film reel was only seventy feet long. It featured who is considered to be Japan's first film actor Unpei Yokoyama who was one of two actors in the film. It features one scene where a robber is apprehended by the police.

[…] A reel was shot of the Noh drama Momiji-gari (Maple Leaf Hunters, or Viewing Scarlet Maple Leaves), in which Danjuro played opposite Onoe Kikugoro V (1844-1903) as an ogress who has disguised herself as the Princess Sarashina. Filmed by Shibata Tsunekichi in the open air on a windy day in November 1899, Danjuro would allow only the one take, so that when his fan blew away in mid-performance the scene had to stay. The film re-emerged at the Kikikan theatre in 1907 where it was a great success and inspired a wave of fiction filmmaking based on traditional Japanese narratives. (cont. http://victorian-cinema.net/danjuro)

Shot at the Kubut-za in Tokyo and a rare record of two classical kubuki actors, Onoe Eizaburo V and Ichimura Kakuki-za VI, A surviving poster for this film is illustrated by a woodblock print of the lead actors by ukiyo-e artist Yutaka Hitoshi, a frozen moment of the incipient transition from traditional art-forms of ukiyo-e and kabuki to the new, and all-dominating medium of katsudo-shashin (cinema).

Rickshaws, trams and pedestrians traffic near the railway station in Tokyo.

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street

Carts, pedestrians and bus traffic in the street.