怀念的容颜 (1941)
なつかしの顔
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.
演员阵容
- 花井兰子 — Osumi
- 小高隆
- 马野都留子
- 藤轮欣司
- 深见泰三 — Schoolteacher
- 小高优 — Shin-chan
- Sumihiko Hara — Ken-chan
- 松崎真 — Masa-chan
- Fumio Okura — Masa-chan's father
- 渡草二 — Shige-san