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A T A R A S H lid T S U C H I
(The New Earth)
Produced by Arnold Fanck Production. Distributed by Tovva Shoji. Original story and screen play by Arnold Fanck. Director, Arnold Fanck. Photography, Richard Angst. Setting by Kenkichi Yoshida. Music by New Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Kos$ak Yamada.
CAST
Iwao Yamato. .
Sessue Hayakawa
Teruo Yamato Isamu Kosugi
Mitsuko Yamato Setsuko Hara
Her maid Yuriko Hanabusa
Gelda Ruth Eweller
Kosaku Kan da Kiji Takagi
[Iideko Kanda . . Haruyo Ichikawa
ATARASHIKI TSUCHI
(The New Earth)
A TOWA J. 0. PICTURE
“The New Earth” is a joint Japanese-German production, in the making of which the Towa Shoji Company, Ltd., and the J. O. Studio of Japan cooperated with German interests. For this work Dr. Arnold Fanck and his technical staff came to Japan. Japan, on its part, furnished the actors of the Nippon Motion Picture Company (Nikkatsu) and others, Mansaku Itami assisting Dr. Fanck with the scenario and direction. Dr. Fanck and his party remained in Japan for almost a year to complete the picture.
The object of producing “The New Earth” was above all to acquaint the people of other lands with the spirit, the life, the customs, the natural sceneries of present-day Japan. It is an extremely difficult task, however, to present an accurate picture of a country like Japan where the old and the new, the East and the West, are in conflict with each other, yet form the warp and woof of its life — a country characterized, in short, by contradictions and complexities which, curiously enough, are none the less brought together into a unified and harmonious whole. And though the work of Dr. Fanck, who strove to understand and depict all this, should rightly be appreciated, it cannot be denied that he has failed. The play itself is faulty in that it errs in a good many instances in conveying what may be described as the true Japan. It is also a flimsy affair, dramatically speaking. Yet, by means of a fine camera and first-rate montages, Dr. Fanck has captured numerous phases of life in Japan and its scenic beauties; and while the result is not as accurate as it might have been, he has in any event done a deal of service in presenting Japan to the outside world in a more broad and more general way.
With regard to the performers, Isamu Kosugi. who is rated as Japan’s best character actor, is cast in a role for which he is ill suited, so that he does not display his abilities here to the full. But a new star, Setsuko Flara, has won the approbation of the public with her beauty.
KISAO UCHIDA
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