The rise and fall of a singer Yoshio Fujimura. Fujimura entertains the lower class passengers on the ship home from Europe, and is traveling with Ayako, a maid who had fallen in love with him.
If you are the kind of person who likes digging through digital archives to find stuff that looks like it was filmed through a layer of dusty gauze, this is for you. You should watch this if you care about film history or if you want to see what Japan looked like in 1930. 🎬 But honestly? If you hate scratchy audio an...
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Kenji Mizoguchi
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"If you are the kind of person who likes digging through digital archives to find stuff that looks like it was filmed through a layer of dusty gauze, this is for you. You should watch this if you care about film history or if you want to see what Japan looked like in 1930. 🎬 But honestly? If you hate scratchy audio and people over-acting with their eyebrows, you will probably hate this one. It is famous for being Japan's first 'real' talkie. You can tell they were excited about the sound becau..."
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