As I started teaching the Mizoguchi class last week I have become obsessed with finding the earliest films of his that I can. While I have come along with some nice discoveries, nothing is more surprising than this. 28 minutes of his film Tokyo March. What survives and is linkable below is quite different then the way we think of Mizoguchi and much more experimental and free-wheeling. Also included are some wonderful shots of Tokyo itself in the late twenties.
While the film itself is silent there is some excellent narration form a modern day female Benshi, who would accompany the film in the theater.
This was appended on the foreign release of The Water Magician, but is quite expensive here in America.
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