Lovetide
Lovetide (恋化粧, Koi-gesho, transl. Love Makeup) is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda based on the story Fukeyo kawakaze by Hidemi Kon. The film is set in a post-War Tokyo where two of its citizens are lovers who reunite after being separated by the war.
| Lovetide | |
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka[1] |
| Screenplay by | Dai Nishijima[1] |
| Based on | Fukeyo kawakaze by Hidemi Kon |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Yoshio Nikita[1] |
| Cinematography | Tadashi Iimura[1] |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 81 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan |
Production
Lovetide was director Ishirō Honda's follow-up to his film Godzilla and was his first film specifically made for female audiences.[2] The film was made with the studio promoting it as "a gorgeous love melodrama with Toho's best cast, meant for all the women-fans."[2]
The film is based on the story Fukeyo kawakaze by Hidemi Kon.[1] The films story and cast (specifically Mariko Okada and Chieko Nakakita, the wife of producer Tomoyuki Tanaka) have been described Honda authors Steve Rylfe and Ed Godziszewski as being similar to the film Floating Clouds that was directed by Mikio Naruse and released a few weeks after Lovetide.[3] Tanaka had mentioned that if he had not steered Honda towards predominantly making science fiction films, Honda would have become "a director like Mikio Naruse."[3]
See also
References
- Galbraith IV 2008, p. 108.
- Ryfle & Godziszewski 2017, p. 108.
- Ryfle & Godziszewski 2017, p. 109.
Bibliography
- Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Ryfle, Steve; Godziszewski, Ed (2017). Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 9780819570871.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)