Souls on the Road
| Souls on the Road | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Minoru Murata |
| Screenplay by | Kiyohiko Ushihara |
| Based on | Children on the Street by Wilhelm Schmidtbonn and on the play The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky |
| Produced by | Kaoru Osanai |
| Starring | Kaoru Osanai Haruko Sawamura Denmei Suzuki |
Release date |
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| Country | Japan |
| Language | Silent film |
Souls on the Road (路上の霊魂, Rojō no Reikon) is a 1921 Japanese silent film directed by Minoru Murata. Film critic Mark Cousins wrote that it was "the first landmark film in Japanese history".[1]
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References[edit]
- ^ Mark Cousins (4 October 2006). The Story of Film. Da Capo Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-56025-933-6. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
Further reading[edit]
- Daisuke Miyao (4 March 2013). The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5422-2. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- Eric Cazdyn (14 October 2002). The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8391-8. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- Joanne Bernardi (2001). Writing in light: the silent scenario and the Japanese pure film movement. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2961-0. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (2008). Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s And 1930s. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3182-0. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- Donald Richie (27 May 2005). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, With a Selective Guide to Dvds And Videos. Kodansha International. ISBN 978-4-7700-2995-9. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
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