harakiri ( 1919 film )
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fritz lang' s harakiri (1919) is a great film for its time. very sad, but compelling storyline. the film doesn' t explain, however, who the european woman is that olaf returned to after his first vist to japan & who accompanied him on his second visit there. is she his european wife? is she his sister? anyway, the film has very accurate & very elaborate japanese façade. very elaborate japanese costumes, very elaborate japanese interior décor, very elaborate japanese buildings, very elaborate japanese garden scenes, replete with thick, mature bamboos, exotic birds, & japanese style bridges. seems no way that lang had such an elaborate & seemingly accurate japanese façade for this film constructed in germany, yet the idea that he took a filmmaking crew on the road all the way from germany to japan in 1919 just to make this fine film seems rather unlikely as well. guess we' ll never know! !
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75 years of cinema museum (1972) as himself the work of revered film preservationist henri langois, who is largely responsible for saving france' s film heritage, is chronicled in this documentary. langois and georges franju formed the cinémathèque française in 1936, and because of his work, french cinema survived world war ii. when the minist
harakiri (1919) as director the buddah priest wants the daughter of the daimyo to become a priest at the forbidden garden. the daimyo thinks, if he was in europe, that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denuciated and has to comit harakiri. she meets olaf, a european officer, falls in love and marries him but after a few months he has to return to europe. she gave birth to a child and is waiting for him, while he marries in europe. when he comes back to japan 4 years later, he is accompained by his european wife ...
harakiri is a silent, black and white film directed by fritz lang released in 1919. the inter - titles are in dutch, however an english subtitle file (srt format) is muxed into the original mkv, and available separately as well. the subtitle source is unknown. the source appears to be a vhs, the audio source and copyright is unknown. quality is not the best, please upgrade if you have a better source! it is recommended you download the original mkv file and play it in vlc player. imdb link wikipedia link ~ ~ ~ for free electronic music, check out karakasa music !
- surprisingly well done. - adaptation of the opera without the music (and hocus pocus) makes for a solid film. - it' s easy for people to immediately jump on the orientalism bandwagon, but they tend to forget that this film is a tragedy and the actions of the characters are justified in the film (not to say that said' s cultural theory is wrong). there are definitely issues with this, but it' s not like the big ol' racist boogeyman was unconsciously behind every move like the invisible hand .
totentanz (1919) as screenwriter in this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer' s sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple' s house .
metropolis (1926) as director in this silent film, a city of the future is threatened with destruction when a wealthy corporate leader enlists a mad scientist to put down labor reformers .
metropolis (1926) as screenwriter in this silent film, a city of the future is threatened with destruction when a wealthy corporate leader enlists a mad scientist to put down labor reformers .
i was already very familiar to this story having seen the 2 silent adaptations in the 1915 version with mary pickford and fritz lang' s harakiri 1919. this is the first talkie of madame butterfly and it' s got sylvia sidney as the asian lady cho - cho san. sidney' s eyes are so unique that she can almost pass for a japanese. at least by hollywood caucasian standards of the time. much more believable then pickford years earlier .
an adaptation of
madame butterfly ,
the tragic romance harakiri indulged lang' s fascination with asian culture and orientalist design. filmed on the outskirts of berlin, lang strived for authenticity, and obtained sets and costumes from the hamburg anthropological museum .
harakiri is problematic. as an adaptation of the great madame butterfly it is strongly lacking but creates its own space. my real qualms with this movie is that i din' t like it. it was slow and whitewashed and simplistic. i do think, however, it is important .
lilith und ly (1919) as screenwriter in this apparently lost film an inventor uses a strange jewel to bring to life a statue of lilith, and falls in love with her. soon, however, she begins to appear on a screen, also developed by the inventor, which reveals her to be a vampire who is slowly sucking his life essence from him, causing him to gradually fade away. he realizes the situation has become even more drastic when he notices his new love, ly, is being possessed by lilith and has also begun fading away .
early fritz lang film with some great production design behind it. beyond that it' s an impersonally told story that only occasionally shows genuine emotion. the whitewashing of the story (lang seems to like buddhist culture without really understanding it) doesn' t help its case either. he' d make better films later in his career .
the script for this early fritz lang includes a backstory for the beautiful o - take - san, the central character in the puccini opera madame butterfly. in this film an evil buddhist priest who lusts after her spreads lies about her father. he tells the emperor her father, the diamyo, returns from his travels with foreign objects and is no longer loyal to japan. the emperor sends two men to see the diamyo, they hand him a knife, and tell him he must commit harakiri to prove his subservience. once he is dead, the priest takes o - take - san to the forbidden garden where she will be made a priestess, but she still refuses his advances. around this time she meets a european naval officer…
i have about zero familiarity with madame butterfly so this film really has to stand on its own for me. in that relative vacuum i liked it well enough. certainly it isn' t as good as the films lang would be making in even just a couple of years, but as a formal piece of observation it is fairly nice with a story i could imagine working as a truly amazing film in the hands of someone like wong kar wai. lang' s, a bit like brecht with the chinese opera, love of japanese culture is spread throughout making it much more charming than if someone who just used japan as a window dressing would likely have it. though in the same…
ponderous film version of puccini' s opera that features none of its music until the final credits. sidney is good as the tragic cho - cho san, but cary grant gets little chance to shine as b. f. pinkerton, who comes across as a flippant and unlikable character. the couple' s reunion is achingly poignant, but it' s a bit of a slog getting to it .
die pest in florenz (1919) as screenwriter suddenly appearing in florence, an evil seductress causes cesare, the city' s ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. the son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city' s churches into dens of sexual debauchery. acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city .
the buddah priest wants the daughter of the daimyo to become a priest at the forbidden garden. the daimyo thinks, if he was in europe, that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denuciated and has to comit harakiri. she meets olaf, falls in love and marries him but after a few months he has to return to europe. she gave birth to a child and is waiting for him, while he marries in europe. when he comes back to japan 4 years later, he is accompained by his european wife ...
the buddhist priest wants the daughter of the daimyo to become a priestess at the forbidden garden. the daimyo thinks if he were in europe that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denunciated and has to commit harakiri. she meets olaf, a european officer, falls in love and marries him, but after a few months he has to return to europe. she gives birth to a child and is waiting for him, while he marries in europe. when he comes back to japan 4 years later, he is accompanied by his european wife ...
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french version of the german movie the testament of dr. mabuse (1933). both movies were directed simultaneously by fritz lang in germany .
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see review and synopsis at: http: / / www. acinemahistory / 2014 / 08 / har... an adaptation of puccini' s opera, itself inspired from pierre loti' s novel, madame chrysanthème .
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this is fritz lang' s version of madama butterfly and worth the time .
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c’est encore primitif, une drôle de chose orientaliste, très attachée à l’iconographie de griffith et à ses logiques de montage alterné. ici lang fait le coup entre l’europe et le japon, la concubine nouvellement mère qui attend le retour inespéré du colon militaire qui l’a enfanté — pendant ce temps le lieutenant l’a oublié et s’est reconstruit une vie en angleterre —, puis le montage alterne entre les deux, créant de grands écarts visuels entre l’orient et l’occident. c’est assez guindé, théâtral et très peu ambitieux au niveau de la mise en scène, mais dans l’idée on retrouve déjà la majorité des thèmes de lang (la trahison, l’antagonisation qui se construit à l’insu des personnages, le suicide des épleurés). le…
incidentally, the version of this on netflix streaming looks like ass, but it' s a far sight better than any that can be found online .
wow, that was boring. and some of the laziest whitewashing i' ve seen in a movie .
gotta love the idea of filming one of the most famous operas, madama butterfly, as a silent movie .
the main leads (e. g. lil dagover) are all germans dressed up as japanese but the bit players are of asian descent. the set design is pretty nice and this is one of fritz lang' s first forays into exotic adventureland .
still, not exactly his most noteworthy production. better stuff was soon to come .
i didn' t know fritz lang was a weeaboo. guess there' s a longer history behind this .
this is the most stolidly directed thing i' ve ever seen from lang, mostly just kind of planting the camera and letting the scenes play out at length, but it' s certainly watchable - though, if you' ve seen madame butterfly, it drags a bit waiting for it to get where you know it' s going. the divergences from the opera actually occur mostly at the beginning, where it adds (i think? unless there are elements to verdi' s version i' m forgetting) a bit of derring - do for perry (here, olaf) in having him find butterfly in a forbidden garden and rescue her from a geisha house and so forth - it motivates her devotion to him somewhat, though it makes his utter disinterest in her in the…
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l' histoire de la jeune et jolie o - take - san qui est poursuivie par les assiduités d' un bonze. heureusement qu' elle rencontre un officier européen, olaf anderson avec lequel elle tisse un parfait amour, durant 999 jours et nuits. mais ce dernier doit revenir dans son pays et elle attendra fort longtemps son improbable retour. une rareté! urltoken
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to get a certain diamond, that will give the owning woman the crown of asia, but the man, who should be the owner of that diamond, doesn' t know of its existence... .
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the 1000 eyes of dr. mabuse (1966) as screenwriter wiesbaden. la polizia criminale è in allarme per una serie di delitti misteriosi che hanno come punto in comune l' albergo luxor. l' opinione pubblica vede negli avvenimenti la mano dello scomparso dottor mabuse. il commissario kras indaga sullo strano omicidio, avvenuto con un ago di acciaio, del telecronista barter (fatto denunciato dal cieco chiaroveggente cornelius) e, durante l' inchiesta, scopre che il defunto aveva appena lasciato l' appartamento occupato al luxor da marion menil, che tenta il suicidio lanciandosi dal cornicione dell' albergo, ma viene tratta in salvo dal suo vicino di camera, il miliardario americano travers. in seguito il poliziotto invita alcune persone, tra cui marion, cornelius e l' assicuratore mistelweig, a chiamarlo al telefono ad una certa ora; ma il telefono esplode ed uccide un agente. alla fine, dopo altre efferati omicidi, il commissario riesce a far luce sull' intricata vicenda, che si conclude con la morte del colpevole, il figlio del dr. mabuse .
indian tomb, the (1959) as adaptation a jealous maharajah discovers that the girl he loves is in love with a visiting german architect, captures her, and threatens to bury her alive as punishment .
indian tomb, the (1959) as screenwriter a jealous maharajah discovers that the girl he loves is in love with a visiting german architect, captures her, and threatens to bury her alive as punishment .
hangmen also die! (1943) as adpt and orig story when a nazi officer is assassinated, czech patriots band together to protect his killer .
fury (1936) as screenwriter an innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge .
m (1930) as screenwriter the mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention .
die frau im mond (1929) as screenwriter a scientist discovers that there' s gold on the moon, he builds a rocket to fly there, but there' s too much rivalry among the crew to have a sucessful expedition .
spione (1928) as from story the mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government'''' s secret service .
spione (1928) as screenwriter the mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government'''' s secret service .
the indian tomb (1921) as screenwriter an indian prince stops at nothing to avenge his wife'''' s infidelity .
die spinnen (1920) as screenwriter adventurer kay hoog finds a note in a bottle from an anthropologist being held captive by south american indians. along the way there is a treacherous spider cult to avoid, an incan treasure to locate and a femme fatale to best .
hilde warren und der tod (1917) as screenwriter hilde warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of an extremely gaunt and sepulchral death. upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, hilde must decide whether to allow it to live or to kill it and risk the embrace of death himself .
the 1000 eyes of dr. mabuse (1966) as producer wiesbaden. la polizia criminale è in allarme per una serie di delitti misteriosi che hanno come punto in comune l' albergo luxor. l' opinione pubblica vede negli avvenimenti la mano dello scomparso dottor mabuse. il commissario kras indaga sullo strano omicidio, avvenuto con un ago di acciaio, del telecronista barter (fatto denunciato dal cieco chiaroveggente cornelius) e, durante l' inchiesta, scopre che il defunto aveva appena lasciato l' appartamento occupato al luxor da marion menil, che tenta il suicidio lanciandosi dal cornicione dell' albergo, ma viene tratta in salvo dal suo vicino di camera, il miliardario americano travers. in seguito il poliziotto invita alcune persone, tra cui marion, cornelius e l' assicuratore mistelweig, a chiamarlo al telefono ad una certa ora; ma il telefono esplode ed uccide un agente. alla fine, dopo altre efferati omicidi, il commissario riesce a far luce sull' intricata vicenda, che si conclude con la morte del colpevole, il figlio del dr. mabuse .
secret beyond the door (1948) as producer a new bride becomes obsessed with the one room her husband keeps locked .
scarlet street (1945) as producer a middle aged wouldbe painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman .
hangmen also die! (1943) as producer when a nazi officer is assassinated, czech patriots band together to protect his killer .
die frau im mond (1929) as producer a scientist discovers that there' s gold on the moon, he builds a rocket to fly there, but there' s too much rivalry among the crew to have a sucessful expedition .
spione (1928) as producer the mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government'''' s secret service .
cloak and dagger (1946) as company near the end of world war ii, the allies must find out how much the axis knows about building atomic bombs. the oss recruits a physicist, alvah jesper, to reach his former colleague, katerin lodor, now in switzerland, and bring her out for debriefing. he reaches her, but a german agent is quickly onto him, and lodor dies. jesper must now get into italy, go underground with the help of gina, a resistance leader, and convince polda, a physicist there, to leave with him. polda won' t go until his daughter is rescued from german detention. as jesper' s pal pinky works on rescuing polda' s daughter and as time for escape runs down, jesper and gina fall in love .
splendor (1988) a romantic drama focusing on fifty years in the life of a movie theater .
man who envied women, the (1986) around a familiar theme - - the dissolution of a marriage - - avant - garde filmmaker yvonne rainer constructs an honest, graceful and wickedly funny account of a self - satisfied womanizer, jack deller, the man
who almost knows too much about women .
android (1982) dr. daniel is a scientist working in a remote space station, trying to create a race of android robots. his humanlike prototype is called max 404. the two of them are in the process of creating the perfect woman android, but what max doesn' t know is that the doctor is planning on replacing him with
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pinkerton marries cho - cho san in japan, whilst on shore leave. when he leaves, she keeps his japanese home as he left it. he returns three years later, having married again in america, and tells cho - cho that their affair is over. she has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself .
prior to the arrival of ingrid bergman, sylvia sidney was the reigning queen of wounded emotions. despite not being japanese — hardly anyone is in this hollywood pantomime version of japan — she' s well cast in the title role. her inevitable movement toward pain and tragedy is affecting, despite the artificiality of it all. cary grant is the heel that marries her. the script attempts to make him sympathetic, but grant doesn' t have a bar of it: his lieutenant b. f. pinkerton is a predator and a cad. the authorities make an appearance via the u. s. consulate, but the foreign policy is to sweep everything under the rug rather than take responsibility for their citizens exploiting the local populace .
an american naval officer leaves his japanese wife without realising she is pregnant with their son .
as her american love interest cary grant gets one of his earliest leading parts and he does well. however don' t expect a classic grant performance. the script and direction is very set and he' s not able to shine out of that .
puccini' s famous opera gets a work out in early hollywood minus the arias. high born cho cho san (sylvia sidney) - who can speak english with a
very high class brooklyn accent
- is sold by her family to a geisha house which in turn makes plans to get her married to a rich bidder. along comes an american navy sailor (cary grant) who is charmed by her beauty and decides to get married to her despite a fiancé back home. after he leaves, his wife waits for three years along with his son, but when he returns he brings along his american wife leading to tragedy. sidney is heart breaking as the demure…
is there someone out there who has always wanted to know what the opera is about, without being distracted from the plot by the music? sylvia sidney, got up in fancy kimonos, mournfully smiles through tears, and a not yet suave cary grant is the rotten - hearted occidental who deserts her. based on a stage version that david belasco had co - written, it' s every bit as bad as you might expect. marion gering directed; the cast includes charlie ruggles, helen jerome eddy, irving pichel, and sandor kallay. paramount .
this is a list of period movies about japan, in historical order. correct me where i' m wrong !
belle époque [ 1871 - 1914 ] in the united kingdom, the belle époque overlapped with the late victorian era and the edwardian era. …
harakiri , or madame butterfly , is a 1919 silent film directed in germany by fritz lang . it was one of the first japanese-themed films depicting japanese culture . the film was originally released in the united states and other countries as madame butterfly because of the source material on which it is based and which also inspired giacomo puccini 's eponymous opera . the film starred lil dagover as o-take-san . 
harakiri, or madame butterfly, is a 1919 silent film directed in germany by fritz lang. it was one of the first japanese-themed films depicting japanese culture. the film was originally released in the united states and other countries as madame butterfly because of the source material on which it is based and which also inspired giacomo puccini's eponymous opera. the film starred lil dagover as o-take-san.
harakiri, or madame butterfly, is a 1919 silent film directed in germany by fritz lang. it was one of the first japanese-themed films depicting japanese culture. the film was originally released in the united states and other countries as madame butterfly because of the source material on which it is based and which also inspired giacomo puccini's eponymous opera. the film starred lil dagover as o-take-san.