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Japanese Soda ads, 1930s

Some kind of soda drink - it's tasty, and it is nutritious. Special for summer. (Thanks to Paula Wirth for translating!)

Actresses Mieko Takamine and Shizue Natsukawa (thanks, spaewaif !)

Scanned from Taschen's "Japanese Beauties".

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Japanese actress Shizue Natsukawa, about late 1920s

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Masayuki Mori in Love Letter (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1953)

Cast: Masayuki Mori, Juzo Dosan, Yoshiko Kuga, Jukichi Uno, Kyoko Kagawa, Shizue Natsukawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Chieko Seki, Ranko Hanai, Chieko Nakakita, Keisuke Kinoshita. Screenplay: Keisuke Kinoshita, based on a novel by Fumio Niwa. Cinematography: Hiroshi Suzuki. Art direction: Seigo Shindo. Film editing: Toshio Goto. Music: Ichiro Saito. 

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Actress Natsukawa Shizue 夏川静江 (1909-1999) on Asahi Beer アサヒ ビール & Ribbon citron リボンシトロン advertising poster - Japan - 1930s

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Anzukko (Mikio Naruse, 1958)

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[Last Film I Watched] Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)

[Last Film I Watched] Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)

  English Title: Twenty-Four Eyes Original Title: Nijûshi no hitomi Year: 1954 Country: Japan Language: Japanese Genre: Drama Director/Screenplay: Keisuke Kinoshita based on the novel of Sakae Tsuboi Music: Chûji Kinoshita Cinematography: Hiroshi Kusuda Cast: Hideko Takamine Shizue Natsukawa Hideyo Amamoto Chishû Ryû Chieko Naniwa Ushio Akashi Kunio Igawa Takahiro Tamura Kumeko Urabe Toyo Takahashi Kimiyo…

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Japanese ads 1930s. Translation by Paula Wirth and spaewaif. Some of these ads scanned from Taschen's "Japanese Beauties".

1 - Face Moisturizer ad, 1930s. "For your healthy and lively skin". Actress Setsuko Hara.

2 - Japanese Soda ads, 1930s. Some kind of soda drink - it's tasty, and it is nutritious. Special for summer. Actresses Mieko Takamine and Shizue Natsukawa.

3 - Japanese drink ad, 1930s.

4 - Kasho Takabatake, Hand-cranked Victor phonographs, 1920's or 1930's.

5 - Giacomo della Porta, Takara Musume Sake ad, ca. 1939.

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Japanese Soda ads, 1930s.

Some kind of soda drink - it's tasty, and it is nutritious. Special for summer. (Thanks to Paula Wirth for translating!)

Actresses Mieko Takamine and Shizue Natsukawa (thanks, spaewaif !)

Scanned from Taschen's "Japanese Beauties".

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東京行進曲 (1929) · Kenji Mizoguchi

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Some kind of soda drink - it's tasty, and it is nutritious. Special for summer. (Thanks to Paula Wirth for translating!)

Actresses Mieko Takamine and Shizue Natsukawa (thanks, spaewaif !)

Scanned from Taschen's "Japanese Beauties".

Japanese Soda ads, 1930s.

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Nikkatsu Film Studio Still Photo of Kanda Shunji and Natsukawa Shizue

Left: Kanda Shunji Right: Natsukawa Shizue

From the 1929 film "Tokyo Koshinkyoku" ("Tokyo March"), directed by Mizoguchi Kenji. Today, only a 24-minute fragment of this film remains, and you can view it here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LmHjUoU38o&t=1480s

This image is from a group of Japanese film stills originally owned by LA Times reporter S. Fred Hogue.

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夏川静江 Shizue Natsukawa (1909-1999)

Shizue Natsukawa appeared in over 65 Japanese films, shorts and TV series, between 1924 and 1984, including a number of early silent films.

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Japanese actress Shizue Natsukawa, about 1930

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Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954)

Cast: Hideko Takamine, Chishu Ryu, Takahiro Tamura, Yumeji Tsukioka, Toshiko Kobayashi, Toshio Takahara, Shizue Natsukawa, Kumeko Urabe. Screenplay: Keisuke Kinoshita, based on a novel by Sakae Tsuboi. Cinematography: Hiroshi Kusuda. Art direction: Kimihiko Nakamura. Film editing: Yoshi Sugihara. Music: Chuji Kinoshita.

One of the most unabashedly sentimental movies you'll ever see, Twenty-Four Eyes may also be one of the most effective anti-war movies, without presenting bloody scenes of people being killed and maimed. Hideko Takamine plays Oishi, a young teacher who begins her career in 1928 on Shodo Island in the Inland Sea of Japan, teaching a first-grade class of 12 -- six boys and six girls -- the 24 eyes of the film's title. We follow her life, and through her point of view the lives (and some deaths) of her first pupils, for the next 18 years, as the world and the war encroach upon a peaceful, pastoral setting. Where Kinoshita's Morning for the Osone Family (1946) was claustrophobic in its presentation of life during wartime, Twenty-Four Eyes shows how the entrapment of people by war can occur in a place where there are no visible signs of the conflict. The natural setting remains undisturbed. No planes fly overhead, no bombs are dropped on the village, but the menace of war threatens the minds and hearts of the most vulnerable: the children Oishi teaches. The most chilling scenes are the ones in which young men are sent off to the war, as flag-waving crowds sing bloodthirsty tributes to the glory of dying in battle for their country. Kinoshita and cinematographer Hiroshi Kusuda reinforce the bitter irony by their restraint. They don't darken the atmosphere: It's the same lovely natural setting. Only the human beings in it have changed. I have to admit to feeling the movie is overlong, and that Kinoshita ladles on the pathos a bit too heavily. The cast weeps floods of tears, and the soundtrack features not only the Japanese folk songs that the children learn but also some old-fashioned Western parlor songs: "Annie Laurie," "The Last Rose of Summer," "Home, Sweet Home," "Auld Lang Syne," and, most curiously, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."  But repress the cynic or the realist, and you may find it moving, too.

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Yamaji Fumiko 山路ふみ子 (1912-2004), Natsukawa Shizue 夏川静江 (1909-1999), Hoshi Reiko 星玲子 (1915-2003) with other actresses in bathing suits - Japan - 1932

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入江たか子 Irie Takako (1911-1995) and、夏川静江さん Shizue Natsukawa (1909-1999)