The Morning Sun Shines (1929)
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The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of footage has survived.
- Date of release
- 1929-04-12
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 25m
- Genres
- Drama, Documentary
- Director
- Kenji Mizoguchi, Seiichi Ina
Casting
- Takako Irie — girl in the elevator
- Joji Oka — (as Susumu Minobe): Hiroo Karasaki, Head of Delegation
- Kōju Murata — Kusaka
- Eiji Nakano — Hayafusa
- Ranko Sawa — Asako Akizuki
- Heitaro Doi — Kōhei Akizuki
Interesting facts
The Morning Sun Shines is a 1929 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. Intended as a promotional film for the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, it combines fictional and documentary elements. Only a fragment of the film survives today.
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