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A N I I M O T O (Brother and Sister)
A P. C. L. Production
The director of this motion picture, Sotoji Kimura, is still a young man, but the people here are staking their confidence in his talent and efforts and many things are expected of him in the future. “Brother and Sister” is based on a short story by Saisei Muroo, a famous Japanese novelist, and a one-act dramatized version of the same story.
The subject matter of this film play deals with the hatred that conceals the strong affection of a poor young man who lives in the country and of his younger sister for each other. Mon, the sister, had gone to Tokyo several years previously to seek em¬ ployment as a maid-servant; and there she entered into a love affair with a young col¬ lege student named Obata and became pregnant. But Obata, who lacked the ability to earn his own livelihood, deserted her in accordance with the wishes of his parents. Betrayed by her first lover and giving birth to a still-born child, Mon left her house and pursued a wretched life. Nevertheless she still loved Obata and retained a tender affec¬ tion for her father and mother, her elder brother and younger sister. Sometimes, on holidays, she visited her home in the country. Ino, her brother, cherished her more than did anyone else. His love for her was probably greater than the usual sort that charac¬ terizes the feelings of brother for sister. He was angered by the fact that this sister who was so dear to him had been ruined by a worthless man and gave vent to his feelings by making her, vicariously, the target of his rage. Possessing as she did an adamantine temperament, Mon returned his harsh rebukes with abusive language. Yet, beneath this violent antagonism and surface hatred between the two there reposed a deep and genuine love. And when Mon heard that her brother had severely chastised her former lover Obata, she cried bitterly, showering him with screaming words of resentment: “Who asked you to beat up my man? How dare you strike my man and smear mud on my face!” But for all that she resented her brother’s interference in her affair, Mon knew it in her heart that her love for Obata was already a thing of the past.
As a film play, “Brother and Sister” has turned out to be an uneven work. It is none the less a fact that the motion picture public fully recognizes the great efforts put forth by its director, Sotoji Kimura. And the actress Chieko Takehisa, who performs the role of Mon, has exhibited in her characterization of the ruined woman, in her ex¬ plosive anger, and in her tearful screams the possession of a dynamism which is rare in the motion pictures of Japan. The part of Ino is played by Sadao Maruyama, a veteran of the stage. Special mention should be made of the fact that the score of the musical accompaniment of this picture was written by Viscount Hidemaro Konoe, the foremost orchestra director of Japan.
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Kisao Uchida