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A Fond Face from the Past (1941)

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.
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Mikio Naruse profile
Mikio Naruse

Director

Mikio Naruse profile
Mikio Naruse

Screenplay

Cast

Ranko Hanai profile
Ranko Hanai

Osumi

Takashi Kodaka profile
Takashi Kodaka

Tsuruko Mano profile
Tsuruko Mano

Kinji Fujiwa profile
Kinji Fujiwa

Taizō Fukami profile
Taizō Fukami

Schoolteacher

Masaru Kodaka profile
Masaru Kodaka

Shin-chan

Sumihiko Hara profile
Sumihiko Hara

Ken-chan

Makoto Matsuzaki profile
Makoto Matsuzaki

Masa-chan

Fumio Okura profile
Fumio Okura

Masa-chan's father

Soji Watari profile
Soji Watari

Shige-san

Ranko Hanai profile
Ranko Hanai

Osumi

Takashi Kodaka profile
Takashi Kodaka

Tsuruko Mano profile
Tsuruko Mano

Kinji Fujiwa profile
Kinji Fujiwa

Taizō Fukami profile
Taizō Fukami

Schoolteacher

Masaru Kodaka profile
Masaru Kodaka

Shin-chan

Sumihiko Hara profile
Sumihiko Hara

Ken-chan

Makoto Matsuzaki profile
Makoto Matsuzaki

Masa-chan

Fumio Okura profile
Fumio Okura

Masa-chan's father

Soji Watari profile
Soji Watari

Shige-san

Extra

Release Date

January 18, 1941

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

Toho Eiga Co., Ltd. logo

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