Five poor musicians make up the worst traveling brass band in Japan. For a few days they hook up with an awful circus whose male performers are on strike.Read More »
Masako Tsutsumi
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Mikio Naruse – Saakasu goningumi AKA Five Men in a Circus (1935) (HD)
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Mikio Naruse – Otome-gokoro – Sannin-shimai AKA Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935)
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Mikio Naruse – Sakasu gonin-gumi aka Five Men in the Circus (1935)
1931-1940DramaJapanMikio NaruseFive poor musicians make up the worst traveling brass band in Japan. For a few days they hook up with an awful circus whose male performers are on strike.Read More »
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Shirô Toyoda – Uguisu aka Nightingale (1938)
Drama1931-1940JapanShirô Toyoda
Not much info on this film out there, but here is a nice little rundown by Keiko McDonald from her book, From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films:
“Uguisu (The Nightingale) drew on a story of the same title published that year by Einosuke Ito. Here the frame of reference is a subgenre that called itself agrarian literature. Ito’s tale is an episodic account of peasants responding to poverty and depravation with cunning, simplicity, and often woeful ignorance.Read More »
