The Daughter of the Samurai (1937)
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At the invitation of the Japanese Ministry of Education, the former “mountain filmer” Fanck directed this “cultural feature film” with Japanese actors in Japan, making this the first, German-Japanese co-production. The young Japanese man Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism, when he returns to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long been promised. But Teruo, who has gotten to know the freedoms of the western world, would rather marry the woman he loves and behaves brusquely to Mitsuko.
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Plot:
At the invitation of the Japanese Ministry of Education, the former “mountain filmer” Fanck directed this “cultural feature film” with Japanese actors in Japan, making this the first, German-Japanese co-production. The young Japanese man Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism, when he returns to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long been promised. But Teruo, who has gotten to know the freedoms of the western world, would rather marry the woman he loves and behaves brusquely to Mitsuko.
Genres: Drama, Romance
Original Title: Atarashiki tsuchi
Spoken Language(s): English, Deutsch, 日本語
Status: Released
Release Date: February 4, 1937
Primary Year: 1937
IMDB Link: tt0028028
Runtime: 114min | 1h 54min
Production Countries: Germany, Japan
Production Companies: Terra-Filmkunst, J.O. Studio, Towa Shoji G.K.
Alternative Titles: Die Tochter des Samurai, 新しき土
- Setsuko Hara – Misuko Yamato
- Ruth Eweler – Gerda Storm
- Sessue Hayakawa – Iwao Yamato
- Isamu Kosugi – Teruo Yamato
- Haruyo Ichikawa – Hideko Kanda
- Yuriko Hanabusa – Oiku, the Maid
- Eiji Takagi – Kosaku Kanda
- Kichiji Nakamura – Ikkan, the Priest
- Max Hinder – German Teacher
- Nisao Tokiwa – Teruo’s Mother
- English – US
- German – DE
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