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๐ Film Specifications
Director Mikio Naruse
Writer Mikio Naruse (Writer)
Original Title ใชใคใใใฎ้ก
Release Date January 18, 1941
Runtime 34 min (0h 34m)
Country Japan
Language JA
Budget N/A
Box Office N/A
Studios Toho Eiga
A Fond Face from the Past (1941)
Directed by Mikio Naruse
โข Written by Mikio Naruse
โญ 3.0 / 5 (9 votes) โฑ๏ธ 34 min ๐ฌ Drama
Ratings Breakdown:
9 ratings 0.5 Stars 5.0 Stars
Synopsis
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 โfound footageโ is indicative of Japanese imperialist ambitions beyond Asia long before Pearl Harbor.