The SHOCKING Story of the First Japanese-Russian Film | Cinema NipponCast Episode 07

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This is amazing. No idea how you guys can churn out so much - well researched - stuff at such a rate.

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Honestly very cool of them to be loyal to one of the first worker's states despite being imprisoned by it. Also I'm reminded of that George Lucas quote about how film directors in the Soviet Union have more creative freedom than ones in Hollywood.

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In other news, today is the day I learned there was such a thing as a Soviet-Japanese co-production.

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Here is some information which may interest you on the Japanese career of the actress Yoshiko Okada. She was not only a busy stage actress in the 1930s, but had a lively career in films as well. She was excellent in Yasujiro Ozu's very good Woman of Tokyo (1933), played the female lead in his masterpiece film An Inn in Tokyo (1935) and also starred in his lost film Until the Day We Meet Again (1932). According to Donald Richie, Ozu had a crush on her because of her sexy eyes. She also appeared in a classic film by the *other* Yasujiro (Yasujiro Shimazu) called Our Neighbor Miss Yae. She acted in No Blood Relation (1932) by Mikio Naruse (the director of Lightning), and also in Hiroshi Shimizu's A Woman Crying in Spring. (All these films except Until the Day We Meet Again are available on the Internet.) She also appeared in Mizoguchi's lost film The Passion of a Woman Teacher way back in 1926, when she was only about 23. So she was quite the movie star in Japan. By the way, I speak a little Russian, and the surname of her co-director on 10,000 Boys, Boris Buneev, is pronounced "Boo-NYAY-yev." Thank you so much for this very informative post.