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The principal role is played by Isamu Kosugi, the leading man of Dr. Fanck’s “The New Earth”, who gives a splendid performance as a character actor.
Tadasi Iizima
KAZOKU KAIGI (Family Conference)
A Shochiku Production
The author of “Family Conference”, Riichi Yokomitsu, is one of the most distinguished novelists of contemporary Japan. His works thus far have become famous on the strength of their microscopic psychological delineations. Lately, however, he has directed his efforts toward the novelization of social phenomena. “Family Conference” was published serially in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi and the Osaka Mainichi, the two most popular newspapers of Tokyo and Osaka respectively. By far the most interesting por¬ tions of this work consist of the description of the stock markets of Tokyo and Osaka, of the families of stock brokers who take an active part in this commercial sphere of society, and of the sort of position both Tokyo and Osaka occupy in the financial world of Japan.
The case of a young stock broker of Tokyo who falls in love with the daughter of an Osaka broker constitutes the basis of the above-mentioned features. The dramatic background of the story, wherein Tokyo is defeated by the real financial power of Osaka, is shown here to exercise its sway over no less than the psychology of love itself.
The director of the film play, Yasujiro Shimazu, is a technician who has been singularly blessed with an aptitude for craftsmanship. He has succeeded, in the main, in fulfilling the aims of Yokomitsu’s novel, but ideological interpretations are somewhat deficient in the film version, so that the real power of financial Osaka is not nearly so convincingly revealed as in the original story. In contradistinction to this, the atmos¬ phere of life in the capitalistic society of Tokyo and Osaka is fairly well exhibited. Such an aspect of life is a comparatively new thing in Japanese films.
One of the most interesting features of this motion picture is the attitude of a young girl of Osaka, a city which lags behind Tokyo in cultural matters, but whose financial superiority enables her to enjoy life courageously. On the other hand, a gentle woman who represents the old, traditional spirit of Osaka is also shown.
In so far as the principal actors are concerned, Sanae Takasugi, who is cast as a “modern” girl of Osaka, gives a more noteworthy performance than Shin Saburi, who plays the role of the young man of Tokyo.
T adasi Iizima
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