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1920s, Buses, Capitalism, Cinema, Cities, Class, Comedy, Japan, Japanese Cinema, Poverty, Satire, Silent Film, Silent Movie, Slapstick, Yuppies

Vanity Is Hell [comic short] (Kyoei wa jigoku, 虚栄は地獄), 1925

A young Japanese couple from the early 20th Century, shown relaxing at home, she playing a wind-up gramophone; he wearing a bathrobe and smoking a cigarette

Production Company Asahi Kinema Scenarist Unknown Source Japanese newspaper article (page three) Cinematographer Hayakawa Kiyoshi Performers Tatsuta Shizue (Natsuko); Hasegawa Kiyoshi (unknown role); Hanazawa Yoshiyuki (unknown role); Uchida Tomu (bus passenger) Status Extant (presumably complete) Photography Black-and-white Music Composer unknown…

RebelJack
June 25, 2025

1950s, Buddhism, Cinema, Class, Drama, Japan, Koreans, Mining, Race, Uncategorized

The Eleventh Hour (Dotanba;どたんば), 1957

A group of men, most with bicyles, gather around their leader in a field, while a mine is visible in the background

Other titles: The Scaffold, They Are Buried Alive (alternate English titles) Production Company Tōei (Tokyo) Scenarists Hashimoto Shinobu and Uchida Tomu Source Kikushima Ryūzō (book) and television film Dotanba (1956) Cinematographer Fujii Shizuka Art Director Mori Mikio Music Kosugi Taiichirō…

RebelJack
December 3, 2021
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Vanity Is Hell [comic short] (Kyoei wa jigoku, 虚栄は地獄), 1925

The Eleventh Hour (Dotanba;どたんば), 1957

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