FILM HISTORY
The Associated Press, in partnership with the newsreel archive British Movietone, is releasing over one million minutes of video footage posted to YouTube. It’s a treasure trove of iconic milestones in history and some rarely seen and quirky moments as well. Some of our favorite finds, the eruption of Italy’s famed Mount Vesuvius in 1938, a 1935 elephant race through the streets of Chicago, and a home exercise machine for dogs from 1937.
You can now watch a century of historic newsreels on YouTube
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life Official Trailer
Cinema Papers November 1986
Interview with Jo-anne McGowan: the making of David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
The Experts Series: Korean Film
Pixar’s Tribute to Cinema
Six secrets you didn’t know about The Handmaid’s Tale. There’s a good chance you may have read it in school but just like many other books over the past few decades, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood has seen a fresh surge in popularity thanks to a TV adaptation of the same name. The show recently cleaned up at the Emmy Awards with 13 nominations and 8 wins.
THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE – МХТ им. А. П. Чехова
Stanislavsky in Focus, by brilliantly examines the history and actual premises of Stanislavsky’s ‘System’, separating myth from fact with forensic skill
The History of Cutting – The Birth of Cinema and Continuity Editing
The Haunted Castle 1896 George Melies Silent Film
Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902)
Georges Melies – 1898 – Un homme de têtes – The Four Troublesome Heads with the use of Travelling Mattes
Georges Melies – 1898 – La lune à un mètre – One meter to the moon
Life of an American Fireman (1903) – Edwin S. Porter | George S. Fleming | Thomas Edison
Edwin Stanton Porter: The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest-1908- The first D. W. Griffith’s film appearance as actor- Early cinema
Adventures Of Dollie 1908
D.W. Griffith
The Lonely Villa (1909) D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation (1915 film by D.W Griffith)
The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America (FULL Audiobook)
Intolerance Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) long version
The History of Cutting – The Soviet Theory of Montage
Battleship Potempkin – Odessa Steps scene (Einsenstein 1925)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgWoSHUn8c
Battleship Potemkin (1925) – Full Movie; English
October: Ten Days That Shook the World – Sergei M. Eisenstein
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Sunrise – A Song Of Two Humans (1927)
The Invisible Man by H.G.Wells
Kong climbs The Empire State Building ( King Kong 1933 )
The Last Days Of Pompeii (1935) Movie[HD]
The Thief Of Bagdad 1940
Ten Commandments Part 1 ~ Full Movie
The Old Man and the Sea
The Parent Trap
The Absent-Minded Professor
Mary Poppins
Ben Hur
Escape from New York
The Empire Strikes Back.
Scientific and Effects Cinematography: “Behind the Lens” 1940 Chevrolet
Special Effects: Norman Dawn creates earliest techniques
HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORY OF FAKING IT | THE EVOLUTION OF GREENSCREEN COMPOSITING
Hollywoods History of Faking It | The Evolution of Greenscreen Compositing
12 Best Long Takes in Film History
Restoration: Samantha Lang’s The Well
As part of Sydney Film Festival’s Restoration program, Samantha Lang’s Cannes nominated film, The Well, returns in stunning form. This vivid and vital Australian film, that boasts a strong female cast and crew, offers more than ever 20 years on. Ahead of its screening at the festival we spoke with Samantha Lang.
FILM NOIR (literally ‘black film or cinema’)
The Untold Story of ILM, a Titan That Forever Changed Film
Film Timeline 1878 – 1919
Aussie Female Feature Filmmakers
These feature films are made by Australian female filmmakers and have been recently released or are coming soon. Support women in film and check out these Aussie titles now at cinemas and online!
- ALL ABOUT E – writer/director Louise Wadley / producer Jay Rutovitz
- AMBROSIA – writer/director Rhiannon Bannenberg
- BEIJING BEING – writer/director/producer Emma Jaay
- BERLIN SYNDROME – director Cate Shortland / producer Polly Staniford / novel by Melanie Joosten
- BLUE – writer/directer/producer Karina Holden producers Sarah Beard and Sue Clother
- CALL ME DAD – writer/director Sophie Wiesner producers Rebecca Barry, Madeleine Hetherton.
- CASTING JONBENET – writer/director/producer Kitty Green
- CHASING ASYLUM – director/producer Eva Orner
- CONSTANCE ON THE EDGE – director Belinda Mason / producer Marguerite Grey
- CRUSHED – writer/director/producer Megan Riakos / producer Sarah Bishop
- DAMAGED – director/producer Maha Wilson
- DEFIANT LIVES – writer/director/producer Sarah Barton / producer Liz Burke
- DESTINATION ARNOLD – writer/director Sascha Ettinger Epstein /
Producer Michaela Perske - DRAMA – writer/director/producer by Sophie Mathisen / producer Dominique Mathisen
- EMBRACE – writer/director/producer Taryn Brumfitt / producer Anna Vincent
- FOR NOW – writer/producer Katherine Du Bois / writer/director/producer Hannah Barlow
- FRISKY – writer/director/producer Claudia Pickering
- FUN MOM DINNER – director Alethea Jones / writer Julie Rudd / producer Naomi Scott
- GAYBY BABY – Maya Newell
- GIRL ASLEEP – director/co-producer Rosemary Myers
- IN MY OWN WORDS – writer/director Erica Glynn
- INNER DEMON – writer/director Ursula Dobrowski / producer Sue Brown
- INNUENDO – writer/director/producer Saara Lamberg
- JASPER JONES – director Rachel Perkins
- LOOKING FOR GRACE – writer/director Sue Brooks / producers Lizzette Atkins, Sue Taylor, Alison Tilson
- LOST GULLY ROAD – writer/director/producer Donna McRae / producer Liz Baulch
- LOST IN PARIS – writer/director/actor Fiona Gordon / producer Christie Molia
- MOUNTAIN – writer/director Jennifer Peedom / producer Jo-Anne McGowan
- PAULINE HANSON: Please Explain! – writer/director Anna Broinowski
- RIP TIDE – writer Georgia Harrison / director Rhiannon Bannenberg
- ROLLER DREAMS – writer/director/producer Kate Hickey producers Cecilia Ritchie and Diana Ward
- SKIN DEEP – writer Monica Zanetti / producer by Rosie Lourde
- SHERPA – writer/director Jennifer Peedom / producer Bridget Ikin
- SPOKE – writer/director Em Baker
- STRANGERLAND – director Kim Farrant / writer Fiona Seres / producer Naomi Wenck
- THAT’S NOT ME – writer/actress/producer Alice Foulcher / producers Anna Kojevnikov, Sally Storey
- THE BAULKHAM HILLS AFRICAN LADIES TROUPE – writer/director Ros Horin
- THE CONNECTION – Shannon Harvey
- THE DRESS MAKER – writer/director Jocelyn Moorhouse / producer Sue Maslin / novel by Rosalie Ham
- THE LAST GOLDFISH – writer/director/producer Su Goldfish
- THE OPPOSITION – director/producer Hollie Fifer / producers Rebecca Barry, Madeleine Hetherton
- THE PINK HOUSE – writer/director Sascha Ettinger Epstein / producer Claire Haywood
- THE WEATHERMAN’S UMBRELLA – Anne Richey
- THE WILL TO FLY – writer/director Katie Bender
- WIDE OPEN SKY – writer/director/producer Lisa Nicol / producer Anna Craney
- WHAT IF IT WORKS? – writer/director/producer Romi Trower
- WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED – director/producer Gillian Armstrong / writer Katherine Thomson
Have you recently released a film and not on the above list? Email us at info@wiftnsw.org.au to be added to next month’s e-news.
Interesting Film History by Emilano Richards
Edison’s Black Maria
The Lumière brothers ‘Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat’ First silent documentary 1896
Georges Méliès ‘A Trip to the Moon’
George Albert Smith ‘A Kiss in the Tunnel’
‘The Sick Kitten’
Edwin S Porter ‘The Life of an American Fireman’
Benjamin Christensen ‘The Mysterious X’ 1914
Victor Sjöström ‘The Phantom Carriage’ 1921
Alice Guy-Blaché ‘Falling Leaves’ 1912
D W Griffith ‘Intolerance – Love’s Struggle Through the Ages’ 1916
‘The Birth of a Nation’
Robert J Flaherty ‘Nanook of the North’ 1921
Abel Gance ‘La Roue’ 1922
F W Murnau ‘Nosferatu’ 1922
Raoul Walsh ‘The Thief of Bagdad’ 1924
Erich von Stroheim ‘Greed’, the last three minutes 1924
King Vidor ‘The Crowd’ 1928
Carl Theodor Dreyer ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc
Otto Preminger ‘A Royal Scandal’ 1945
Forough Farrokhzad ‘The House is Black’ 1963
Jorgen Leth ‘The Perfect Human’ 1967
SCREEN STUDIES
Mise-en-Scène
Mise-en-Scène translates to ‘placing-in-the-scene’ and being interpreted to cover the arrangement of everything that appears in the framing and that takes place on the set.
The importances of the content when making choices with sets, lights, costume, makeup, props, décor, sound, hair styles, film stock, aspect ratio, performance, aspects of camera and movement to create the mood and ambiance of a film contributes to the range of emotional, subjective, psychological, engrossing and engaging experiences.
It is not only about montage, it is an aspect of cinematic storytelling, narrative information conveyed by building various shots, creating sequences and scenes that are modified to create the film. There is the aesthetics of the shots, the stylistic arranged elements being part of the context that is composed with width, depth, space, time and reality to capture the audience, giving meaning to the film and developing the story.
Mise-en-Scène is about the tools that gives the film life, allowing the viewer to participate in the reality created by the shots and the relationship between the shots.
Bibliography
Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. “Film Art: An Introduction.” In Film Art: An Introduction, Ch 4 118 – 166. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.
Van Sijll, Jennifer. Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know. Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions, 2005.
Cook, David A. “A History of Narrative Film.” In A History of Narrative Film, pp 49–50, 182, 365–366, 423–24, 456–57, 486, 513–17. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1981.
Colman, Felicity. “Film, Theory and Philosophy the Key Thinkers.” pp 9, 23, 37, 102, 106, 108, 116, 118, 141, 172, 174, 208, 222, 228–9, 230–1, 343, 2009.
Monaco, James. “How To Read A Film – Movies Media and Beyond.” In How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond: Art, Technology, Language, History, Theory, pp 193, 205, 461, 456–468. 4th ed., completely rev. and expanded. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
“Wikipedia,” Mise En Scène. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_scène>
My Impressions of Two Contrasting Editing Styles
In contrast there are many long takes in ‘The Shinning’ which strongly contributes to the eerie, unsettling and terrifying emotions created in this horror film.
These prolonged shots leave the audience wondering where is the story going and what is going to happen. There is no quick distraction, the slow editing to the next shot or action creates suspense setting the audience up and building the tension.
Deconstruct a Shot
The area defined in this shot gives a sense of distance going back to the three soldiers while conflicting the viewer with the flat area cutting across the shot behind the characters. The viewer’s eyes want to go from the Doctor in the front, left to beyond the soldiers, right and the wall stops the eye bringing it coming back to the emotional face of the doctor and the cycle continues without settling.
The hard edged light behind the Doctor’s head and the shape of the light shadow behind the soldiers highlights their position in the environment. There is the strong, vertical building line between them confirming the conflicting relationship and the distance created between them.
The simple and harsh, vertical and horizontal lines of the building’s structures are part of the emotion created in the scene. Colour adds to the mise-en-scène, the shades of blue combined with the rain and mud leave a cold and miserable feeling.
‘….a film can manipulate space to communicate information or convey a feeling.”
Dick, Bernard F. “Anatomy of Film.” In Anatomy of Film, p 49, Boston, Mass.: Bedford St. Martins, 2005.
Sound Assisting the Narrative in Film
How Can Sound Assist the Narrative in Film?
The sound in film assists the narrative by shaping the viewers perception of the story and being a subliminal driving focus of the film.
In the opening sequence of ‘The Other Son’ the exchange of music and strong location effects introduces and establishes the mood of the film. The on and off screen paper stamping sounds in the background during the medical examination has an unconscious influences on the atmosphere in this scene.
In the shower scene from “Psycho” the sound makes it impossible for the viewer not to become emotionally involved in the characters actions. The sharp contrast between the musical sounds and the focus on particular sound effects together with the exaggerated film shots work to build the emotional tension.
The sounds which include foley, ambience, effects and music or lack of, give life to the vision and manipulate audiences. This includes telling them how to feel while evoking feelings, creating moods, influencing the pace, making changes in time, establishing locations, drawing attention to details and making connections between characters, places, images and moments to suggest a few.
Basic Structure of a Story
THELMA and LOUISE
ACT ONE – setup, the trip
The scene is set with the girls preparing to get away for a week-end get away having some freedom away from the routine of their lives. Thelma is married with an abusive husband and Louise is a waitress both bored with their lives, they want change, time away from their tedious lives. Thelmaʼs relationship is not very comfortable and she leaves without letting her husband know and for some reason packs the gun.
They leave and disaster happens when they stop to have some fun at a bar/club on their way. Thelma gets into trouble when a guy she meet at the club gets aggressive in the car park. Louise appears with the gun and shoots Harlam. Now they have to figure out what to do and unknown to them the police have become involved. Louise phones Jimmy for money as they have none and they decide to go on the run.
ACT TWO – confrontation, the runaway
They discuss running away as they figure no one saw them. They have a chance of escaping with the possibility of going to Mexico but not through Texas and need go via Oklahoma to pick up the money.
They pick up DJ after some initial reluctance. Jimmy arrives with the money and proposes to Louise. DJ makes his way back to Thelmaʼs room while Louise and Jimmy are catching up. When Thelma meets up with Louise, Louise realises the money will be gone. When the go and check the money is gone.
This leads to Thelma robbing the store and when the police see the security video they are building up more and more information on what they are doing. The men are wondering about what is going on.
Thelma and Louise phone the boys and work out they know and the police are there. Louise asks to speak to the police and finds out they know about them going to Texas. They are becoming fugitives.
They drive towards Mexico and pass a sexist truck driver who Thelma finally ignores. A policeman pulls them over, possible speeding and Thelma shoots the car radio and puts
the policeman in the boot of the car. Louise calls Hal, the police and they are being charged with murder. They are not giving
up, not making any deals – dead or alive. Their fate has been sealed.
ACT THREE – resolution, the escape
They see the macho truck driver again and ask for an apology, when he does not give it to them they shoot the truck tyres and the truck explodes.
A stoned bicycle rider finds the policeman in the boot of the car and the police helicopters are closing in. There hare lots of police cars chasing them, they are out numbered. They go off the road and temporarily lose them under the bridge and pull up close to the edge of a cliff. The police continue to close in until Thelma and Louise can choose, surrender, fight or keep going. They are not giving up and they drive off the cliff.
Ingredients of a Story
What are the essential ingredients of stories. SCHOOL of ROCK is a
musical comedy, a fell good movie when you leave the cinema and the power of music. Dewey Finn : Protagonist Antagonist : ’ can be a threat of obstacle to the main character’ from Wikipedia I was thinking this could be society represented by the teacher, parents, flat mates/friend
Characters
Dewey : On the surface he is a fraud and ill-equipped to be a teacher. The film shows how his role effects the students and they gain confidence and self-esteem. He is a slob rocker, self-absorbed, passionate and incapable of complying with any authority. Being motivate by the need for money, only knowing rock he is not concerned about the interest of the kids. Later it unfolds that he cares for the kids or does he? Is he only interested in rock success thus manipulating his students to follow his interests.
All the kids are includes and if they are not happy with their roll he works it out eg Summers from groupie to manager, Billy from security to band stylist. Tomika from security to singer and Dewey shares his eating habits with her also supports her when she lacks confidence before the concert.
Ms Mullins : the uptight principal Repressed school kids
Summers : determined to please and succeed
Zac : shy with large and overbearing father and uses music to show him other responses ‘step off’
Freddy : rebel, troublemaker drummer and provides the vehicle for Dewey to prove that he cares for the kids
Lawrence : keyboardist, transformed to a rockin’ keyboardist
Tomika : body issues. Does not want to be a security detail or roadie and is a singer. Also needs support before the concert.
Billy : security to band stylists Gordon : roadie to computer lighting the show
Confilct
Is shown from the social side between conservative and band lifestyles. And in the characters by not fitting in, not succeeding in the traditional ways and society expectations. to the desire to succeed in socially acceptable ways and how the story unfold between the two. Dewey goes from being only interested in himself to being concerned about the kids.Including them all in the project to changing their roles, protecting Freddy, playing the kids song at the concert. The kids and his friend change as well as the principle and the parents at the end.
Resolution
With the success of the band and the development of the relationship between Dewey and the kids the parents and principle see the value and talents of the children and there is room for it all.
The children find themselves and what they can do. Dewey finds success and his place in the world.
Ethics
Paying your way, socially acceptable behavior, body issue of being fat, bullying.
World (rules)
Dewey is scruffily dressed and slept in a mess on the sofa, the school environment is neat and tidy, Dewey takes the principle to his pub for coffee and she is uncomfortable, Freddy rolled up his shirt sleeves.
Theme
almost famous, rebellious attitude, norms and deviance, piety and blasphemy, right and wrong.
Environment
fictional school
Beginning : Dewey is a slob rocker who is self-absorbed, problems with authority and not capable of taking responsibility. He is at the end of the line.
Middle : He finds a job teaching kids continuing in his devious ways. He finds out the kids have musical talent and they form a bond. Dewey and the kids learn from each other and their journey makes this part of the story.
End : Dewey gets exposed when the paycheck arrives for Ned. Following this the he is asked questions at the parents evening about what has been going on. His real identity is revealed and he is fired from the school. The next morning the kids come looking for him and push him and they all head to the ‘Battle of the Bands’. The principal and parents realise the kids are missing, head to the concert and their outrage changes to support.
Genre and Tone in Korean Films | KOFFIA 2021
INTERESTING HISTORIC FILMS
A Three-Man Collision (Sannin otoko no shototsu)
A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) 1902
All Quiet on the Western Front1930
Arrival of a Train (Arrivée due train à La Ciotat) 1985
Ball of Fire (1942) Howard Hawks into A Song Is Born (1948) Hawks
Bend of the River
Blue Angel, The 1931 German Joseph von Sternberg
Clear Skies Avenge (Tenhare adauchi)
Dishounered 1931
Fire-Bug, The 1905
Great Train Robbery, The 1903
Hero of Liao Yang, The
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Jack and the Beanstalk 1902
Jazz Singer, The
Judge Priest (1934) into The Sun Shines Bright (1953) John Ford
L’Amour 1933
La petite Lise 1930
La Strada 1954 Fellini
La Vie de Moise
Lady in the Lake 1946
Lady and the Gent, The 1932
Law of the Newly Invented 20th-Century Puck (Niju seiki shinhatsumei pukku o hakurai kuinige no ho)
Lonsdale Operator, The D. W. Griffith 1911
Love Parade, The
Man from Laramie, The
Man’s Castle 1933
Marriage Circle (1924) Lubitsch
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934, 1956) Hitchcock
Morocco 1931
Morphology of the Folk Tale
Mythologiques
Napoleonic Epic, The (L’Epopée napoleonienne)
Passion Play Pathé
Quatorze juillet 1932
Ride Lonesome
Sous les toits de Paris 1930
Seventh Seal, The 1956 Bergman
Seven Men from Now
Tall T, The
Three Bad Men (1926) reworked into Three Godfathers 1926)
True State of Parisian Coeds’ Depravity, The (Danjo gakusei daraku no shinso)
Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris) 1930
Winchester ’73
Zigomar 1911
JAPANESE THEATRE
Nolletti, A., Desser, D. (Eds.), 1992. Reframing Japanese cinema: authorship, genre, history. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
Spoken Silents in the Japanese Cinema; or, Talking to Pictures: Essaying the Katsuben, Contexturalizing the Texts J. L. Anderson
Utsushie
http://www.f.waseda.jp/kusahara/Utsushi-e/What_Is_Utsushi-e.html
Bunraku – puppet theatre
Kamishibai
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JAPANESE RADIO
Airplane Drone (Bakuon) 1939
Danger (Tanko no naka) 1925
Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejii) 1936
SELECTION of SOME JAPANESE FILMS and SERIES
SOME REMAKES
A Story of Floating Weeds (Ukigusa monogatari) 1934 as Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) 1959
I was Born but … (Umarete wa mita keredo…(1932) into Ohayo (1959)
Harp of Burma (Biruma no tategoto) Two versions 1956 and 1983
Samurai Trilogy (Musashi Miryamoto) two versions 1940 and 1954-56
The Life of Matsu the Untamed (Muho Matsu no issue) 1943 retelling Rickshaw Man 1958
A Cat, Shozo and Two Women (Neko to shozo tofutari o onna) 1956
A Charred Water Lizard (Imori no kuroyaki) 1908
A Crazy Page/A Page Out of Order (Kurutta ippeiji) 1926
A Grievance about Public Morality (Kotoku no nakigoto)
A Group of Japanese Men Swimming (Danseito no suiei)
A Maroon Wooden Drum (Ebicha no mokugyō)
A River Fête at Ryōgoku (Tōkyo Ryōgoku no kawabiraki) 1905
A Story of Floating Weeds ( Ukigusa monogatari) 1934
A Story ofJapanese Yakuza (Nihon Kyokakuden) 1964-71 series
A Taxing Woman (Marusa no gonna) 1987
A Taxing Woman Part 2 (Marusa no gonna 2) 1988
A Tipsy Life (Horoyoi jinsei) 1933
A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Song (Nihon shunka-ko) 1967
A View of Nikko (Mikko no kokei) 1905
A Woman Aviator (Onna hikoka) 1913
Abe Clan, The (Abe Ichizoku) 1938
Actual Scene of the Asakusa Flower Garden, The (Asakusa hanayashiki jikkyō) 1903
Actual Scene of the Fifth Osaka Exhibition, The (Osaka daigokai hakurankai jikkyō) 1903
Actual Scene of the Kyoto Gion Festival, The (Kyōto gion matsuri jikkyō) 1903
Actual Scene of the Kobe Naval Review, The (Kobe kankanshiki jikkyō) 1903
Adventures of Jirocho (Jirocho sangokushi) 1952-54 nine part series
Adventures of Jirocho (Jirocho sangoku-shi) 1963-4
Age of Assassins (Satsujinkyo jidai) 1965
Age of Irresponsibility in Japan (Nippon musekinin jidai) 1962
(Akanishi Kakita) 1936
Amateur Club (Amachua kurabu) 1920
Amended Record of Japanese Zigomar, The (Zoku Nippon Jigoma kaishin-roku) 1912
An Actor’s Revenge (Yukinojo henge) 1935
An Autumn Afternoon (Samma no avi) 1962
An Inn at Osaka (Osaka no ado) 1954
Apart from You (Kimito wakarete) 1933
Art of Shinto-Style Sword Drama (Shintō-ryū kenbujutsu sugekimi) 1908
Bad Sleep Well, The (Warui eats modo you nemuru) 1969
Band of Ninja (Ninja bugeicho) 1967
Bandits on the Wind (Yato gaze no nana o hashiru) 1961
Battered Energy of Desire, The (Oshima Nagisa)
Battle of Honno Temple, The (Honnoji gassed) 1909
Bell Forest (Suzu ga modi)
Benkei of the Bridge (Hashi Benkei)
Between War and Peace (Senso to heir) 1947
Blood Is Dry, The (Chi wa kawaite ire) 1960?
Boy (Shonen) 1969
Bride Talks in Her Sleep (Hanayome no negoto) 1933
Brothers and Sisters of the Today Family, The ( Todake no kyodai) 1941
Burden of Live (Jinsei no onimotsu) 1935
Burglar on the Roof
Bushido—Samurai Saga (Bushido zankoku monogatari) 1963
Captain’s Daughter, The (Tai-i no musume) 1929
Carmen’s Pure Love (Karumen junuosu) 1952
Catch, The (Shiiku) 1962
Ceremony, The `Ceremonies, The (Gishiki) 1971
Children—The Precious Disturbance (Kodakara modo) 1935
Christian Rebel, The (Amakusa Shiro tokisada) 1962
Chuji’s Travel Diary (Chuji tab nikki) 1927
(Kunisada Chuji) 1935
Chug Makes a Name for Himself (Chuji uridasu) 1935
Chūshingura 1932
Climactic Operation, The (Kojo sakusen) 1974
Code of an Outlaw, The (Yatamono no okite) 1969
Combat without a Code (Jingi maki tatami) 1972-74 series
Common Soldier’s Story, The – series
Crest of the Man, The ( Otoko no monsho) 1963-66
Cruel Story of Youth or Naked Youth for export (Seishun zankoku monogatari) 1960
Cuckoo-New Form, The (Shin hototogisu) 1909
Daimyō Saburo-maru 1914
Dancing Girl of Azu (Izu no odoriko) 1933
Dandyish Procession (Haikara no gyōretsu)
Dawn (Reimei) 1927
Dawn at the Soga Brothers’ Hunting Grounds (Soga kyōdai karma no akebono) 1906
Days of Youth (Wakaki hi) 1929
Death by Hanging (Koshikei) 1968
Dear Summer Sister (Natsu no imoto) 1973
Demon Thistle 1908
Diary of Yunbogi (Yunbogi no nikki) 1965
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief ( Shinjuku dorobo nikki) 1968
Dispersing Clouds (Wakare-gumo) 1951
Dodeskaden 1970
Dr Kimuyo (Joi Kinuyo sensei) 1937
Dragnet Girl (Hijosen no onna) 1933
Drinking Habit and the Family, The (Inshu to katei)
Drunken Angel (Yoidore tench) 1948
Early Summer (Bakushu) 1956
Education of Old Ideas, The (Kyu-shiso no kyōiku)
Empire of Passion, Ghost of Love, The Realm of Desire (Ai no borei) 1978
End of Summer, The (Koharyakawake no aki) 1961
End of the role of the Schoolgirl, The (Jinshin no ura-omote)
Enoken’s Kondo Isamu (Enoken no Kondo Isamu) 1935
Equinox Flower (Higanbana) 1958
Fallen Blossoms (Hana chorine) 1938
Faithful Servant Naosuke (Chuboku Naosuke) 1936
Failure of Overconfidence (Unubore no shippai)
Family Games (Kazoku geimu) 1983
Feather Cloak Dance of Miss Tenkatsu, The (Tenkatsujo no hagoromai) 1906
Fifth Scene of the Loyal Forty-Seven Retainers, The (Chūshingura godanme)
Fighting Soldier(Tataku hentai) 1940
Fires on the Plain (Nobi) 1959
First Steps Ashore (Joriku dai-ippo) 1932
Five Scouts ( Gonin no sekkohei) 1938
Floating Nest of the Little Grebe, The (Nio no Ukisu) 1900
Floating Weeds (Ukigusa monogatari) 1934 and 1959
Floating Weeds 1959
Flower of Green Tea over Rice, The (Ochazuke no avi) 1952
Funeral, The (Ososhiki) 1984
Gate of Hell 1953
Genroku Dance of the Yoshimachi Dancers, The (Yoshimachi geigi genroku odori) 1905
Ghost Mirror (Yūrei kagami) 1908
Girl Students’ Military Arts (Jogakusei no bugeitaiso)
Good Morning (Ohayo) 1959
Grand Motion Picture on the Boxer Rebellion (Hokushinjihen katsudō daishashin) 1900
Great Metropolis: Chapter on Labor, The (rodehen) 1930
Green of the Pine, The (Matsu no midori) 1911
Groom Talks in His Sleep, The 1935
Growing Up (Takekurabe) 1955
Harakiri (Seppuku) 1962
Harp of Burma (Biruma no tategoto) 1956 and 1983
Hen in the Wind (Kaze no nana no mender) 1948
Hidden Fortress, The (Kakushi torrid no san akunin) 1945
High and Low (Tengoku to jig) 1963
History of Japanese Film Music (Nihon eiga ongaku shi)
Hitokiri (Tenchu) 1969
Hometown (Furusato)1930
Hoodlum Soldier (Heitai yakuza) 1965
Hosokawa Covered with Blood (Hosokawa no chidaruma)
Human Condition, The (Ningen no joke) 1958 – 1961
Humanity and Paper Balloon (Ninjo kamifusen) 1937
I was Born but…. (Umarete wa mita keredo…) 1932
If We Don’t Abandon This Child (Kono ko sutezareba) 1935
Ikiru (1952)
In the Realm of the Sense (Aino koriida) 1976
Intention of Murder (Akai satsui) 1964
It’s Tough to Be a Man (Otoko wa tsurai yo) series
Japanese Don, The (Nihon no don) 1981
Japanese Cherry Blossoms (Nihon sakura) 1909
Japanese-Made Social Puck Moving Picture (Nippon-sei shake pukku katsudō shashin)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Muri shinju nibon no borei) 1967
Japanese Zigomar (Nippon Jigoma) 1910
Jirocho and Mt Fuji ( Jirocho Fuji) 1959
(Kaketoji Tokijiro) 1929
Katsuben Story, The 1957
(Kavita Akanishi) 1936
Komatsu Riyuzo Part ll 1939
Koume of Kanaya (Kanaya Koume) 1930
Kumagai Fan Store, The (Ogiya Kumagai) 1908
Lady and the Beard, The (Shukujo to hide)
Largest Gambling Den in the Postwar Period, The (Sengo said no toba) 1969
Late Autumn (Akibiyori) 1960
Late Spring (Banshun) 1949
L’Amour (Ramura, aka Aibu) 1933
Lightening Burglar (Inazuma goto)
Life of Matsu the Untamed, the (Kuho Matsu no issue) 1943
Life Story of Saint Nichiren, The (Seishō Nichiren Daishi gochidai-ki) 1910
Lilly of the Valley (Tsuruganeso) 1935
Little Man, Do Your Best (Koshiben gambler) 1931
Live of Oharu, The (Saikaku ichidai onna) 1952
Lonely Roughnech, The (Subishiki Ranbomono) 1927
Long-Sought Mother aka Mother He Never Knew, The (Mabuta no haha) 1931
Lottery Jackpot (Senryoraku) 1935
Lower Depths, The (Donzoko) 1957
Loyal Forty-Seven (Chūshingura) 1962 (Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers)
Man Who Left His Will on Film (Tokyo senso hiwa) literally Secret Story of Postwar Tokyo aka He Died after the War 1970
Marching On (Shingun) 1930
Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, The (Tora no o fumo otokotachi) 1945
Mito Komon Part II 1932
(Minamoto Musashi) 1962-1970
Modern Yakuza, The (Gendai yakuza) 1969-71
Modern hash 1929
Morning for the Osone Family (Osoneke no asa) 1946
Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku) 1944
Mother (Haha) 1929
Mr Pu (Pu-san) 1953
Mud and Soldiers (Tsuchi to heitai) 1939
Munekata Sisters (Munekata shimmy) 1950
National Boarding House (Kokuyu no Geshukuya)
Neighbour’s Wife and Mine, The (Madamu to nyobo) 1931
New Great Detective Zigomar (Shin Jigoma Dai-tantei) 1912
New Katsura River (Shinkatsura gala) 1909
Night and Fog in Japan (Nihon no your to kiri) 1960
Nights.s Wife, The 1930
Nightly Dreams (Yogoto no yum) 1933
Nightly Dreams, Apart from You
Ohara (aka Good Mroning ) Ohio (1959)
Once More (Ima hitotabino) 1947
One Night’s Lodging (Isshoku ichiham) 1968
One Thousand and One Nights of Travelling (Matatabi senichiya) 1936
Only Son, The (Hitori musk) 1936
One’s Sin (One ga tsumi)
Orochi 1925
Oryu (Hibotan Oryu) 1968
Oryu’s Visit (Oryu sanjo) 1970
Osaka Elegy 1936
Otomi Stabbed 1908
Our Neighbour Miss Yae (Tonari no Yae-chan) 1934
Pastoral Symphony (Den’en kokyogaku) 1938
Pleasures of Flesh (Etsuraku) 1965
Pheasant in a Burnt Field (Yakino no kigisu) 1909
Police 1933
Prison Breakout in Saghalien, The (Karafuto no hagoku)
Quiet Duel, The ( Shizukanaru kept) 1946
Red Beard (Akahige) 1965
Rashomon (1950)
Red Beard (Akahige) 1965
Record of a Living Being (Ikimono no kiroku) 1955
Record of a Tenement Gentleman 1947
Respect for the Emperor (Sonno jodi) 1928
Rickshaw Man (1958)
Riding on a Ball in Real Society (Katsu-shakai no tamanori)
Samurai Rebellion (Joiuchi) 1967
Samurai Trilogy (Jusashi Minamoto) 1940 and 1954-56
Sanshiro Sugata 1943
Scarlet Bat, The ( Beni komori) 1931
Scene of Minamoto Musashi’s Elimination of the Baboons, The (Miyamoto Musashi hihi taiga no ba) 1908
Second-Rate Comedian aka Something like That (No yo na mono) 1981
Semi-Japanese Semi-Western Wedding (Wayō sechū kekkonshiki) 1908
Seppuku (Hara-diri) 1962
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) 1954
Shadow Figure (Kageboshi) 1909
Shanghai 1932
Sky is Clear ( Sora wa haretari) 1925
Song of the Flower Basket (Hanakago no ute) 1937
Spring in Southern Islands (Nanto no haru) 1925
Steel Edge of Revenge, The (Goyokin) 1969
Stone Bridge (Shakkyō)
Story of the Last Yakuza in the Showa Period, The (Showa zankyoden) 1965-72
Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi (Nishizumi sensacho-den) 1940
Stray Dog (Nora ini) 1949
Street without End (Kagirinaki hodo) 1934
Succeeding the Second (Nidaime shame) 1968
Surface and True Feelings of People’s Minds, The (Jinshin no ura-omote)
Sword of Vengeance series
Successful Love, The (Ai no seikō)
Sumo Wrestler’s Debut (Ippon batata dohyoiri) 1931
Sun Legend of the Shogunate’s Last Days
Tale of the Loyal Forty-Seven Retainers, The (Chūshinguara)
Tampopo 1986
Tange Sazen 1933
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Tange Sazen—hyakuman ryo no tsubo) 1935
Tattoo of a Lion, The (Karajishi shugi) 1965
Ten Dark Women (Kuroi junior no gonna) 1961
Tenth Scene of Taikoki, The also known as Ehon Taikoki (Taikoki jūdanme) 1908
Theatre of Life, The (Jinsei gekijo—Hishakaku) 1963
There was a Father (Chichi arise) 1942
Three Beauties (San rem ka) 1934
Throne of Blood (Kagemusha) 1980
Three Outlaw Samurai (Sambiki no samurai) 1964
Three Resurrected Drunkards (Kaette kits yopparai) 1968
To Sleep So As To Dream 1986
To The Distant Observer 1979
Tokyo Chorus (Tokyo no gassho) 1931
Tokyo Snowscape (Tōkyō no sekkei) 1905
Tokyo Twilight (Tokyo boshoku) 1957
Tough Guys behind Bars (Kabe no nana no korinai mermen) 1987
Tragedy: The Self-Immolation of the Captain (Higeki: sancho no junshi)
Trial of Vivienne Ware, The 1932
True Account of the Ando Group, The (Andagumi jitsuroku) 1978-79
True Character of Gentlemen Nowadays, The (Tosei shins hi no shotai)
Tsubaki Sanjuro (Sanjuro) 1962 – Sanjuro (Tsubak Sanjuro) 1962
Twenty-Six Japanese Martyrs, The 1930
Two People at Dojō Temple (Ninin dojōji)
Ugetsu (Ugetsu mongatari) 1953
Ugetsu Monogatari 1953
Viewing Scarlet Maple Leaves (Momijigari)
Village Bride, The (Mura no hanayome) 1928
Violence at Noon (Hakuchu no troika) 1967
Wanderers (Matatabi) 1973
War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya, The (Hawaii-Marei ski kaiser) 1942
Well-Mannered Beasts, The aka Elegant Beast (Shitoyaka na kedamono) 1962
What did the Lady Forget (Shujo wa nani o waster-tala) 1937
Where Chimneys Are Seen (Entotsu no mire basho) 1953
Wife Be like a Rose (Tsuma yo bra no yo ni) 1935
Woman of the Mist (Oboroyo no gonna) 1936
Woman of Tokyo (Tokyo no gonna) 1933
Woman Samurai 1908
Woman Who Touched the Leg (Ashi ni sonata gonna) 1926
Wonderful Men in the World of Yakuza (Yakuza those no suteki na mermen) 1988
Yakuza Front on the Tokaido Path (Ninkyo Tokaido) 1958
Yakuza on the Road (Matatabi waraji) 1929
Yataro’s Travel Hat (Yataro gasa) 1932
(Yojimbo) 1961
Young Days of Jirocho (Wakaki hi no Jirocho) 1960-62
CHINESE FILMS – Films to 1991
1931 first Chinese talkie was released
A bible for Daughters
A Spring River Flows East
Along the Sungari River
Army Nurse (1986)
At Middle Age
Before the New Director Arrives 1956
Bitter Love (or Sun and the Moon, The) ( 1981)
Black Cannon Incident, The
City of Sadness
Come On China
Crows and Sparrows
Diary of Returning Home
Dr Norman Bethune (Bethune: The Making of a Hero?)
Early Spring (and Serfs)
Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon
Elder Sister
Evening Rain (1980)
Far From War
Fascinating Musical Band
First Sino-Japanese War, The
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Girl from Hunan
Heading For Home
Hibiscus Town (1987)
Horse Thief (1986)
In-Laws, The (1981)
Intimate Friends
In the Wild Mountains
Kids Canteen
King of the Children
Last Sun, The
Last Day of Winter, The
Leg End of Titanium Mountain, The
Legend of Tianyun Mountain, The (1980)
Li Shuangshuang (1962)
Life (1984)
Life of Mine, The (1950)
Life of Wu Xun 1951?
Life and Old Well
Lin Family Shop, The (1959)
Lonely Murderer, The
Lower Depths, The
Love and Inheritance
Loyal Partners (1957)
Make Believe Couple, The
Man Unconcerned with Details, The
Marine
Me and My Class Mates
Missing Girl Student, The
Moon Reflected on Second Spring (1979)
My Memories of Old Beijing
Jia wu feng yun (AKA The Naval Battle of 1894) (1962) (English Subtitles)
New Doctor, The (1975)
New Year’s Sacrifice (1956)
Night Lodging
Number Thirteen Haunted Residence
Old Well, The
On the Docks (1972)
On a Small Street
On the Hunting Ground
One and Eight (1984)
Opium War, The
Our Demobbed Soldier
Our Tabby
Out On Parole
Popular Film
President Extraordinary
Red Sorghum
Red Detachment of Women, The (1960)
Regret for the Past
Reverberations of a Life
River Without Buoys
Romance on Lushabn Mountain (1980)
Sacrificed Youth
Savage Land (1981)
Season for Love, The
Secret Decree
Spring in a Small Town 小城之春 1948
Stage Sisters (1965)
Spring River Flows East 一江春水向東流 (1947) part 1 with English subtitles
Song at Midnight 夜半歌聲 (1937) with English subtitles
Soul of a Nation, The
Stars are Bright Tonight, The
Sungari river
Superstar
Swan Song
T Province
Taking tiger Mountain by Strategy
Third Sister Liu
Trapped on a Frozen River
Travelling Players
Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman, The
True Story of Ah Q, The
Twins Come in Pairs (1979)
Unfinished Comedy, The (1957)
University in Exile
Wild Torrents
Yellow Earth (Huang Tudi) (1984)
Youth (1977)
Zhenzhen’s Beauty Parlour
OTHER
BBC Soul of a Nation : The Royal Family of Thailand (1979)
CHINESE ANIMATION
Beautiful Cigarette Girl, The
Camel Dance, The (1935)
Catch the Turtle in a Jar (1948)
Citizen (1932)
Conceited General, The (1956)
Democratic North-East, The
Dream of the Emperor, The (1947)
Father of Miss Lu, The
Fisher Boy, The (1959)
Flute and Cowherd, The (1963)
Golden Conch, The (1963)
Hunger of the Old, Stupid Dog
Intelligent Little Darling, The (1960)
Journey to the West
Little Heroes, The
Magic Paintbursh, The (1955)
Monkey King
Motherland is Saved by Aviation
Painful Story of the Nation, The
Posters of Anti-Japanese War, The
Price of Blood, The (1930)
Princess Iron Fan (1941)
Rebellion of the Paper Man, The
River is Red with Blood, The
Scenes of Urban Life
Smiling Monkey, The
Songs of Anti-Japanese War
Spring of Ginseng, The (1962)
Turmoil in a Workshop (1927)
Typewriter for Chinese
Uproar in Heaven (1964)
Wake Up (1972)
Where is Mama? (1960)
World of Insects, The
Year of Chinese Goods, The
Zhou Bajie East Watermelon (1958)
HONG KONG FILMS
A Chinese Ghost Story
A Hearty Response
Aces Go Places (III)
An Autumn Fairytale
Brothers
City of Fire
Dan Quan Cun Pian
Eastern Condors
Easy Money
Fifty Years of Sunrise and Sunset
Flaming Brothers
Home from the Hill
Imitation of Life
Killing Fields, The
Lady in Black
Legend of Wisely, The (1987)
Long Arm of the Law: ll
Modern Security Guard
Paragon
Project A:11
Road Warriors
Rogue
Story of Hay Bo, The
Underworld Friendship
Written in the Wind
Yingxiong Pian
TAIWANESE FILMS
After Midnight
Aunty Chin-Shui
Daughter of the Nile
Flag is Flying, The
Growing Up
Legend of Dr Sun Yatsen, The
Love is Grown With Flowers
Missing People
My Father is Not a Thief
Split of the Spirit, The
Strawman
We Went to See the Snow that Year
White Teeth and Black Skin
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