Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

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CLOSE UP 359 A scene of the Bon Festival Dance from "Japan in Four Seasons." Un passage du Festival de Danse Bon, dans " Le jfapon en quatre saisons." Tokyo as the centre of Japan under the auspices of the Asahi newspaper. After shooting, they got back to the Soviet Union with the film as undeveloped. In the Meschrabpom studio in Moscow the film was synchronized under the direction of Kosaku Yamada, a well known Japanese conductor and composer, who had been expressly invited from Japan for the purpose. The document was completed and in July this year, it was brought back to Japan and shown in Tokyo for two days. This film of four reels has Tokyo from morning till midnight (this treatment reminds us of Ruttmann's Berlin) interwoven by some scenes of the primitive rural manners in the suburbs of Tokyo and those of the Nikko Shrine. This film is rather banal and not so piercing as we should have expected it to be from a Russian director whose countrymen