Made in 1936. The eldest son of Edo Kitamachi Magistrate Toyama Kinzaemon, Kinshiro, is the heir to the Toyama family, but after he thought that Shinnosuke, his stepmother, Fusae’s son, would succeed in his place, he left home, became acquainted with the yakuza and got into trouble. Even though his father, Kinzaemon, seemingly disregarded Kinshiro, he was concerned about him every day. His stepmother was also worried. One night, the couple go separately to find out about Kinshiro.

1936 Cherry Time in Edo - Ryohei Arai HDTV 1080i.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 21 min
Size: 	1.90 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1440x1080 ~> 1920x1080
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	59.940 fps
Bit rate: 	3 183 kb/s
BPP: 	0.034
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 141 kb/s

Directed by Arai Ryohei (荒井良平) even though IMDb says it was directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.

https://nitro.download/view/58DAA7C572D289A/1936_Cherry_Time_in_Edo_-_Ryohei_Arai_HDTV_1080i.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3516F8055163ADD/1936_Cherry_Time_in_Edo_-_Ryohei_Arai_HDTV_1080i_v2.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese, English

The post Ryohei Arai – Hana no haru toyamazakura AKA Cherry Time in Edo (1936) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Partially lost film. Exactly it is said only 1/4 are extant.

Original story is like the following (translated from the accompanying booklet):

After finishing university, Hayafusa (Eiji Nakano) and Kusaka (Hiroyoshi Murata) enter Osaka Asahi Shimbun Co. Akizuki (Heitarô Hirai), the president of some company, who is from the same province with them, does not pleased of their entrance because he dislikes newspaper, however, his daughter Asako (Ranko Sawa) prays their future successes. At the office of Shinzaki (Shin Minobe), that are located at the same building with Akizuki, dubious foreigners have frequented, Hayafusa and Kusaka can obtain Shinzaki’s encrypted telegram with the help of elevator operator Kurie (Takako Irie). When Aurora, steamship round the world meets with a disaster off the coast of Sumoto, they goes there as reporters. Shinzaki also hurries to go there for the foreigners on board. Akizuki also goes there with Asako, worriying about bis son. Sufferers are saved by the Hayafusa and Kusaka’s efforts, and at the same time Shinzaki’s smuggling are exposed. He escapes by motorboat with kidnapping Asako, to whom he has a feel of love. Kusaka’s motorboat follows them and Hayasaka’s airplane also chases. Then Asako is saved. Now the stubborn Kôhei knows the power of newspaper, and Hayasaka marries with Asako.

This print is a reedited version as a documentary about newspaper. No fictional scenes are extant, except for Hayafusa and Kusaka are collecting newspaper materials.

339MB | 25:09.371 | 712×534 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/578B97F718A2B49/Asahi_wa_kagayaku_(1929).avi

Language:Silent, Japanese intertitles
Subtitles:None

The post Kenji Mizoguchi & Seiichi Ina – Asahi wa kagayaku AKA The Rising Sun is Shining [Reedited version] (1929) first appeared on Cinema of the World.