The Morning Sun Shines
1929 Kenji Mizoguchi film
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Seiichi Ina
- Eiji Nakano
- Hirotoshi Murata
- Heitarō Doi
- Ranko Sawa
- Irie Takako
- Tatsuyuki Yokota
- Torao Taishima
Production
company
company
Nikkatsu
Release date
- 12 April 1929 (1929-04-12) (Japan)
Running time
The Morning Sun Shines (朝日は輝く, Asahi wa kagayaku) is a 1929 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina.[1] Intended as a promotional film for the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, it combines fictional and documentary elements.[2][3] Only a fragment of the film survives today.[4]
Cast
- Eiji Nakano
- Hirotoshi Murata
- Heitarō Doi
- Ranko Sawa
- Irie Takako
References
- ^ a b c "朝日は輝く". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ McDonald, Keiko I. (1984). Mizoguchi. Boston: Twayne Publishers. p. 22. ISBN 9780805792959.
- ^ Miyao, Daisuke (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema. Oxford University Press. p. 142. ISBN 9780199731664.
- ^ Raine, Michael; Nordström, Johan, eds. (2020). The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 194–95. ISBN 9789089647733.
External links
- The Morning Sun Shines at IMDb
- v
- t
- e
Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
- The Morning Sun Shines (1929)
- Tokyo March (1929)
- Tōjin Okichi (1930)
- The Water Magician (1933)
- Aizō Tōge (1934)
- Orizuru Osen (1935)
- Osaka Elegy (1936)
- Sisters of the Gion (1936)
- The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
- The 47 Ronin (1941)
- Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
- The Love of Sumako the Actress (1947)
- Women of the Night (1948)
- Flame of My Love (1949)
- Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950)
- Miss Oyu (1951)
- The Lady of Musashino (1951)
- The Life of Oharu (1952)
- Ugetsu (1953)
- A Geisha (1953)
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
- The Woman in the Rumor (1954)
- The Crucified Lovers (1954)
- Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955)
- Tales of the Taira Clan (1955)
- Street of Shame (1956)
This article about a documentary film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
This article related to a Japanese film of the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e