Japanese Movie Listing - C
The letter C is not a hot bed of exciting Japanese movies, although technically Chushingura is the title for The Fourty-Seven Ronin, which is one of my favorite movies of all time.The Campon Blood Island (British: 1958)
Call Me Mister (1951-US) 95m. D: Lloyd Bacon
Acceptable plot line helps buoy this musical. Soldier Dan Dailey, based in Japan, goes AWOL to patch up marriage with Betty Grable travelling with USO troupe. Danny Thomas, Dale Robertson.
Cascading White Threads (Taki no Shiraito) (1933) 110m. Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
"Cascading White Threads was chosen as one of the two best Japanese films of the year it was released. Erotic and moving, White Threads offers an unusual Mizoguchean heroine, played by superstar Takako Irie: a top-billed circus performer called Shiraito, who falls in love with a young student. She supports him while he is in law school, but when the circus falls on hard times, she accidentally commits murder while struggling with its owner. The judge assigned to her case is . . . her lover. Based on a famous Japanese novel [by Kyoka Izumi], White Threads is uncharacteristic Mizoguchi in some ways -- it employs many close-ups, for instance -- but its tale of female sacrifice and its visual splendour are unmistakably Mizoguchean. The titles are by [Japanese film authority] Donald Richie" (James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario). "Mizoguchi has given us one of his best controlled, most economical, most justly paced films" (Richie). "The association of the two stars, Irie and Okada, produced a great success. . . It was a film I had wanted to make for a long time" (Mizoguchi). Cast: Takako Irie, Tokihiko Okada, Suzuko Taki, Ichiro Sugai. B&W, Silent with English intertitles. [Daniel Richard]
The Challenge (1982)
An American boxer gets caught in the middle of a decades old private war between two samurai brothers in modern day Japan. Scott Glenn, Toshiro Mifune, Dona Kei-Benz. [Lisa - This has a great scene with Scott's character trying to eat a live lobster!]
Cold Fever (1996). D: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson.
Japanese yuppie's pilgrimage across Iceland to perform a ritual that will safeguard the peace of his dead parents' souls. Eerily filmed in Iceland. (reviewed in NYT's 4/8/96)
Color of Honor: The Japanese-American Soldier in World War II
documentary.
Come See The Paradise (1990)
Jack McGurn (played by Dennis Quaid) takes a job at a movie theater in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo and falls for the manager's daughter Lily (Tamlyn Tomita). They marry, but after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, all Japanese-American are interned. Told in flashbacks, the story offers a candid look at the racism implicit in the relocations and the hypocricy that often lurks beneath the surface of the pursuit of liberty and justice for all. A wonderful love story and a powerfully moving drama. Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Stan Egi, Ronald Yamamoto, Akemi Nishino, Naomi Nakano, Brady Tsurutani.
The Crimson Kimono (1959). D: Samuel Fuller.
With James Shigeta, is set not in Japan but in the Japanese-American community in Los Angeles, but is of considerable interest, not least because it's setting was a very unusual one for its time. My recall of it is somewhat shaky - it's 30+ years since I saw it. Two L.A. detectives investigate stripper's murder. [Gavin Hougham]
Crucified Lovers (1954) 102m. (Chikamatsu Monogatari)
One of the finest films of the director's brilliant late period, Crucified Lovers -- also known as A Story from Chikamatsu -- finds "Mizoguchi's style at its most painterly" (Anderson and Richie), and stands as an exemplar of his characteristic compassion and concern for the plight of Japanese women. Unjustly accused of adultery by her hypocritical merchant husband, an innocent woman flees with her supposed lover, a young clerk, and the two begin a genuine but doomed romance. Based on a 17th-century bunraku play by legendary writer Monzaemon Chikamatsu, often called the Japanese Shakespeare, and shot by the master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Ugetsu, Kurosawa's Rashomon), this poetic work "is perhaps Mizoguchi's most intense and concentrated study of social mores in feudal Japan and among his most visually sensuous films" (Sadoul, Dictionary of Films). "[A work of] power and magnificence [by] the greatest of Japanese filmmakers" (Jean-Luc Godard). Director: Kenji Mizoguchi. Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Yoko Minamida. B&W, In Japanese with English subtitles. [Daniel Richard]
Cry for Happy (1961) 110m.
Navy photography team in Tokyo uses a geisha house for their home. Glenn Ford, Donald OConnor, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Urneki. D: George Marshall.
Chushingura - see The Fourty Seven Ronin
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