A Fond Face from the Past (1941)
34m
Running Time
January 18, 1941Release Date
A Fond Face from the Past (1941)
34m
Running Time
January 18, 1941Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Ranko Hanai
Osumi

Takashi Kodaka

Tsuruko Mano

Kinji Fujiwa

Taizō Fukami
Schoolteacher

Masaru Kodaka
Shin-chan

Sumihiko Hara
Ken-chan

Takashi Kotaka
Kôji

Makoto Matsuzaki
Masa-chan

Fumio Okura
Masa-chan's father

Soji Watari
Shige-san

Mikio Naruse
Director / Screenplay / Writer

Teppei Himuro
Executive Producer

Shigeru Matsuura
Editor

Shin Ebara
Sound Recordist

Tadashi Ota
Original Music Composer

Takero Marukawa
Lighting Technician

Seiichi Kizuka
Director of Photography
Details.
Release DateJanuary 18, 1941
Original Nameなつかしの顔
StatusReleased
Running Time34m
Genres
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