“Your Name” ( Japanese 君 の 名 は : kimi-no na wa ; English What Is Your Name? ) Is a Japanese black and white melodrama film in the style of “Sure-tigay” . The film was directed by Hideo Ooba in 1953 on the radio play . The main roles were played by the popular stars of Japanese cinema of the 1950s Keiji Garden and Keiko Kishi . The first film of the love trilogy, Matiko and Haruki, who first met and fell in love on the Sukiya Bridge during air raids on Tokyo in March 1945 . The film won an honorable second place according to the results of the Japanese hire of 1953, losing first place to its sequel .
| Your name | |
|---|---|
| Japanese 君 の 名 は ( kimi-no na wa ) | |
 | |
| Genre | melodrama |
| Producer | Hideo Ooba |
| Producer | Matsusaburo Yamaguchi |
| Author script | Takao Yanai |
| In the main cast | Keiji Sada Keiko Kishi |
| Operator | Takeshi Saito |
| Composer | Yuji Koseki |
| Film company | " Shёtiku " |
| Duration | 127 minutes [1] . |
| A country |  Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Year | 1953 |
| Next movie | Your name. Part II |
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Premieres
- 4 About the film
- 5 notes
- 6 References
- 7 Literature
Story
On the night of the air raid on Tokyo on May 24, 1945, a young man and woman, Haruki Atomiya and Matiko Ujiie, meet in the ruins. Having survived the bombing in a bomb shelter together, in the morning the young people parted on the Sukiya Bridge, promising each other to meet at the same place six months later on November 24 at 8 o’clock in the evening. Saying goodbye, they did not give their names.
On the appointed day, the young man comes to the bridge alone. And Matiko did not let her rather tyrannical uncle go to this meeting, who had taken the girl to Sado Island (Niigata Prefecture) two days earlier, where he was thinking of settling in this difficult post-war period. Uncle decided to arrange the fate of Matiko and, against the will of the girl, married her to a young man from a good family making a political career, Katsunori Hamaguchi. Hamaguchi, who came to their engagement, learns from her friend Ai Ishikawa the sad story of Makiko's first love for a stranger with whom the war separated her. But fascinated by the beauty of the girl, he makes a noble gesture and asks her to trust him. Hamaguchi, on vacation, offers Matiko his help in finding her lover. When they were already close to the goal of their search, Matiko fell in love with the good guy Katsunori Hamaguchi, who so devotedly and nobly helped her, ready, even if she finds her beloved, to give up her own happiness. However, before her wedding, Makiko comes to Sukiya Bridge on November 24, 1946 and meets Haruki there to see him again before she gets married.
Two years have passed. Matiko's marriage was not too happy. Her husband Katsunori has changed, and not for the better. He is now a big man who holds an important post in the Tokyo municipality and demands that his wife break off all contacts with her friend Aya Ishikawa, explaining that she works in an entertainment institution, and this can damage his career. He became suspicious of Matiko herself, constantly thinking that she still loved her ex-lover Haruki. Moreover, a rather strict mother-in-law constantly monitors Matiko, suspecting her of infidelity to her son. Unable to endure constant nit-picking by her husband and mother-in-law, Matiko escapes from Katsunori and leaves for Sado Island.
Her ex-girlfriend Aya Ishikawa, learning about the flight of Matiko, comes to Haruki and insists that he should not miss his next chance, thrown to him by fate himself and set off in pursuit of his beloved. However, when Haruki arrives on Sado Island for Matiko, she confesses to him that she is pregnant by her husband, who also will not give her a divorce. The weeping Matiko asks him: “What should I do? Tell ... ", to which Haruki with pain in his heart replies:" Matico-san, you ... it’s probably better to return to Hamaguchi. For the sake of the child. " Broken-hearted Haruki leaves for Tokyo.
Cast
- Keiji Gardens - Haruki Atomia
- Keiko Kishi - Matiko Ujiie
- Chikage Avashima - Aya Ishikawa
- Yumeji Tsukioka - Yukie, Haruki's sister
- Yuji Kawakita - Katsunori Hamaguchi
- Toshiko Kobayashi - Kozue
- Hitomi Nozoe - Asa
- Keiko Awaji - Nami Tomura
- Tishu Ryu - Kaseda
- Haruyo Ichikawa - Tokue, mother-in-law of Matiko
- Yuko Motizuki - Nobue, Aunt Matiko
- Fujio Suga - Kengo Mizusawa
- Kodu Ichikawa - Kanji
- Koji Mitsui - Yokoyama
Premieres
- - September 15, 1953 - the national premiere of the film in Tokyo [1]
About the movie
Before the Second World War, Japanese cinema had such a kind of films - “Sure-tigay” (literally translated - “to warm up with someone”), which have enjoyed continued success at the national box office. These were melodramas with straightforward plots where the lovers would certainly part. The audience, waiting for the lovers to meet, which each time was broken due to some kind of accident, was in constant tension. The most popular was a series of four films, the first of which, “ The Aizen Tree ” ( 1938 , directed by Hiromas Nomura ), spoke about a young doctor (actor Ken Uehara ) and a widowed nurse (actress Kinuyo Tanaka ) who love each other but cannot be together, since his parents are against marrying his son to a woman with a child [2] .
In the post-war period, when the film company "Setiku" experienced certain difficulties caused by ruin and poverty, as well as problems with trade unions, it was a melodrama in the style of "Sure-tigay" that saved the studio’s financial situation [3] . The idea of creating the film “Your Name” came to the leadership of the company after the success of the eponymous radio play Kazuo Kikuta, aired in 1952 . In the plot of both the play and the movie, in addition to the heart-breaking romantic story of separated lovers, the social conflicts of post-war Japan are also reflected: the difficult life of military widows; returning from the front and then passing through the internment camps; mixed blood children born of Japanese women to Americans; including the eternal theme of the relationship between son and mother, daughter-in-law and mother-in-law.
The film, released in the early fall of 1953, was a tremendous success, breaking the record of the former leader of the Aizen Tree genre. Total fees at the box office amounted to 250.47 million yen [4] .
In a short time was continued Your name. Part II , which was released by the end of the same year, and in the spring of 1954 the third and final series was released. The company's revenue from all three films amounted to almost a billion yen, which was a pretty significant amount at the time. The proceeds were used for the modernization of the studio and for the creation of a scientific institute engaged in technical research at the company “Setiku” [5] .
Since the beginning of the 1960s , the popular Sure-tigay movie genre in the past has practically disappeared from the screen due to social changes generated by the incredibly fast-paced economy of the new era, in which patience and sentimentality were no longer considered positive qualities [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 君 の 名 は on the website of the Kinema Jumpo magazine (Japanese)
- ↑ 1 2 Sato, Tadao . "Cinema of Japan": Translation from English - M., "Rainbow", 1988. - S. 15-16
- ↑ Schilling, Mark . Love will tear them apart on The Japan Times newspaper website
- ↑ Die Top 10-Listen zu den größten Kassenerfolge der 1950er Jahre on the Nippon-Kino website (German)
- ↑ Kimi no na wa, japanese film on the Britannic Encyclopedia's website
Links
- Your Name on the Internet Movie Database
Literature
- Iwasaki, Akira , "Contemporary Japanese Cinema", 1958, (Russian translation 1962, Translators: Vladimir Grivnin, L. Levin), - M .: Art, 1962, S. 243.
- Iwasaki, Akira . “History of Japanese Cinema”, 1961 (Russian translation of 1966, Translators: Vladimir Grivnin, L. Levin and B. Raskin). - M.: Art, 1966, S. 231.
- Sato, Tadao . “Cinema of Japan”: Translation from English - M., “Rainbow”, 1988. - S. 16, 179. ISBN 5-05-002303-3