The Dancing Girl of Izu (1933 film)

The Dancing Girl of Izu
Japanese	恋の花咲く伊豆の踊子
Directed by	Heinosuke Gosho
Written by	Akira Fushimi; Yasunari Kawabata (short story);
Starring	Den Ohinata; Kinuyo Tanaka; Tokuji Kobayashi;
Cinematography	Jōji Ohara
Production; company	Shochiku
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	2 February 1933; [1]
Running time	124/94[1][lower-alpha 1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The Dancing Girl of Izu (Japanese: 恋の花咲く伊豆の踊子, romanized: Koi no hana saku Izu no odoriko, lit. 'The Blooming Love of a Dancing Girl of Izu') is a 1933 Japanese silent romance film directed by Heinosuke Gosho. It is the first adaptation of the 1924 short story The Dancing Girl of Izu (伊豆の踊子, Izu no odoriko) by Yasunari Kawabata.

Plot

During his vacation tour on Izu peninsula, student Mizuhara befriends a group of travelling players. He and dancer Kaoru fall in love, but they are drawn into a scheme involving a local gold mine once inherited by Kaoru's brother Eikichi, which Eikichi lost through his carelessness.

Cast

Den Ohinata (credited Den Obinata) as Mizuhara
Kinuyo Tanaka as Kaoru
Tokuji Kobayashi as Eikichi
Eiko Takamatsu as Otatsu
Kinuko Wakamizu as Chiyoko,
Shizue Hyōdō as Yuriko
Jun Arai as Zenbei
Ryōichi Takeuchi as Ryûichi
Reikichi Kawamura as Kubota
Ryōtarō Mizushima as Tamura
Takeshi Sakamoto as Hattori
Chōko Iida as a geisha
Kikuko Hanaoka as a geisha
Shōzaburō Abe as customer
Kiyoshi Aono as Kisaku

Legacy

The Dancing Girl of Izu is not only the first, but also regarded the best of the many adaptations of Kawabata's story, and an important example of films connected to the junbungaku ("pure literature") movement, which favoured "serious" literature in opposition to "popular" literature.[2] Gosho and his screenwriter Fushimi added a sublot and obscured the class differences between the characters, instead aiming at a nostalgic depiction of the country "untainted by modernization" (Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano).[3]

Notes

With a length of 2,576 meters, the film's running time is 124 minutes when projected with silent film frame rate (18 fps) or 94 when projected with sound film frame rate (24 fps). The Japanese Movie Database lists 124 minutes running time, other sources 94 minutes.

References

"The Dancing Girl of Izu at the Japanese Movie Database" (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 January 2021.
Nolletti Jr., Arthur (2008). The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter through Tears. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34484-7.
Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo (2008). Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s And 1930s. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3182-0.

External links

The Dancing Girl of Izu at IMDb
The Dancing Girl of Izu at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
"The Dancing Girl of Izu at Windows on Worlds". Retrieved 19 January 2021.

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[2] With a length of 2,576 meters, the film's running time is 124 minutes when projected with silent film frame rate (18 fps) or 94 when projected with sound film frame rate (24 fps). The Japanese Movie Database lists 124 minutes running time, other sources 94 minutes.

[jmdb-1] "The Dancing Girl of Izu at the Japanese Movie Database" (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 January 2021.

[Nolletti-3] Nolletti Jr., Arthur (2008). The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter through Tears. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34484-7.

[Wada-Marciano-4] Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo (2008). Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s And 1930s. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3182-0.