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A Fond Face from the Past (1941)

ALL 01/18/1941 (ja) Drama 34 Min
  • Release
    01/18/1941
  • Production
    Toho Eiga Co., Ltd.
  • Rotten tomato
    59%
  • Original title
    なつかしの顔
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist restrictions of the time, perhaps because it is also his most direct engagement with the culture of war. When a newsreel comes to Kameoka featuring a local man named Yoichi, it causes some excitement in the community and, of course, in Yoichi's own family. First of all his mother makes the newsreel (Nippon News, no. 14), which begins with the same marching music that opens his own film, followed by a curious baby judging context in Los Angeles featuring two hundred Japanese babies. Released in January 1941, almost a year before the pacific war begins, this “found footage” is indicative of Japanese imperialist ambitions beyond Asia long before Pearl Harbor.

  1. Mikio Naruse

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Producer



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A Fond Face from the Past (1941) 34 Min

ALL 01/18/1941 (ja)
Drama
  • Release 01/18/1941
  • Production
    Toho Eiga Co., Ltd.
  • Original title なつかしの顔
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist restrictions of the time, perhaps because it is also his most direct engagement with the culture of war. When a newsreel comes to Kameoka featuring a local man named Yoichi, it causes some excitement in the community and, of course, in Yoichi's own family. First of all his mother makes the newsreel (Nippon News, no. 14), which begins with the same marching music that opens his own film, followed by a curious baby judging context in Los Angeles featuring two hundred Japanese babies. Released in January 1941, almost a year before the pacific war begins, this “found footage” is indicative of Japanese imperialist ambitions beyond Asia long before Pearl Harbor.

  1. Mikio Naruse

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Shigeru Matsuura

    Editor

  4. Producer



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