Carmen Comes Home Brian Darr March 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Hideko Takamine lined up with her uncle at the Shochiku studio for an audition for the Hotei Nomura film Haha (Mother, 1929). Already adorable at the age of five, she got the part, the film became a hit, and a ...
Ballad of Narayama Darragh O’Donoghue February 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Keisuke Kinoshita was the cineaste laureate of Official Japan, his films seeming to pander to his audience rather than challenge it. His best-loved work, Nijûshi no hitomi(Twenty-Four Eyes, 1954), allowed the n...
