Monument to Lilies , in other translations: Obelisk of Red Lilies , Tower of Lilies [comm. 1] ( Japanese ひ め ゆ り の 塔 chimeeyuri-no that ) is a Japanese black and white film shot in the genre of military drama by director Tadashi Imai and released on the screen in 1953 . The film tells about the tragic fate of girls-schoolgirls who died during the fighting on the island of Okinawa in the last days of World War II . The film yielded an unprecedented income since the inception of Japanese cinema, at more than 200 million yen , which helped to recover the Toei film company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy.
| Monument to Lilies | |
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| jap. ひ め ゆ り の 塔 | |
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| Genre | war drama |
| Producer | Tadashi Imai |
| Producer | Mitsuo Makino [1] |
| Author script | Yoko mizuki |
| In the main cast | Kyoko Kagawa Susumu Fujita , Keiko Tsushima Eiji okada |
| Operator | Shunichiro Nakao |
| Composer | Yuji Koseki |
| Film company | Toei |
| Duration | 130 minutes |
| Fees | ¥ 240,000,000 [2] |
| A country |  Japan |
| Tongue | Japanese |
| Year | 1953 |
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Story
The last stage of the war in the Pacific . The U.S. Army launched a general offensive on Okinawa. A squad of schoolgirls called “Red Lilies” is sent to a field hospital in Nambugen. The squad is led by a teacher in Tamai and a teacher in Miyagi. In the girls' hospital - Fumi, Tsuru, Junko - days of hard and dangerous work await under the supervision of a military doctor Oka. Soon comes the day of graduation from school, the girls meet him in a trench. The class is becoming thinner and thinner after continuous air raids. The army leaves Nambugen. She retreats to new positions, leaving all those who could not move to the mercy of fate. Under heavy rain, under continuous shelling of naval artillery, the Red Lilies detachment departs with the army. As soon as he gets to the village of Itosu, enemy shells begin to fall there too. Nowhere to go. The command of the army orders to disband the detachment. Resentment and confusion encompasses teachers and students. A group of girls led by Miyagi took refuge in a cave, and a group of teacher Tamai decides to flee along the coast. The doctor Oka kills one girl in a cave, at the same time, an explosion is heard at the entrance to the cave, from which all those who hid in her die - a teacher, students and soldiers. Under machine-gun fire, a group of girls who make their way to the sea die.
Cast
- Kyoko Kagawa - Fumi Uehara
- Susumu Fujita - Dr. Oka
- Keiko Tsushima - Miyagi teacher
- Eiji Okada - Tamai teacher
- Geng Shimizu - Mr. Yamaoka
- Kinzo Shin - Teira Teacher
- Akitake Kono - teacher Sakaekan Naka
- Miki Odagiri - Tsuru Otai
- Chieko Seki - Junko Hisada
- Shunji Kasuga - Tokuda teacher
- Kaneko Iwasaki - Aiko Hanashiro
- Harue Tone - Ruri Asato
- Yoshi Kato - Gunicho Sasaki, Head of the Hospital
- Takashi Kanda - Hashimoto's teacher
- Yoshio Tsuchiya - Medic
- Shoji Yasui - Soldier
- Taiji Tonoyama - Terugaki
... Tadashi Imai perfectly conveyed the horrors of war, the feeling experienced by the girls in these conditions (the script by Yoko Motizuki provided ample opportunities for this). The ruthless realism of the film, combined with soft lyricism, leaves a deep impression on viewers who saw the war as a tragedy from which there is no escape.
Premieres
- - The national premiere of the film took place on January 9, 1953 [1] .
Awards and nominations
- Blue Ribbon Award
- 4th Award Ceremony (1954) [3]
- Award to the best director of 1953 - Tadashi Imai.
- Kinem Jumpo Magazine Award (1954)
- The film was nominated for the "Kinem Dzumpo" award in the nomination for the best film of 1953, and took the 7th place according to the results of the vote [4] .
Comments
- ↑ The Russian name “Obelisk of Red Lilies” is widespread in Soviet cinema science, including in the 1986 Film Dictionary (p. 595), and in the encyclopedic publication The Director's Encyclopedia: Films of Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America (p. 44 —45), in Inna Gens’s book “The Sword and Hiroshima” (p. 78), in the Russian edition of Akira Iwasaki ’s books “Contemporary Japanese Cinema” (p. 504) and “The History of Japanese Cinema” (p. 169, 176, 231) . Under the name “Lily Tower”, the film is mentioned in the Russian edition of the book by Japanese film expert Tadao Sato “Cinema of Japan” (p. 76, 208). The Russian name “Monument to Lilies” was given by the author of Russian subtitles for the film, distributed on the network on torrent trackers and online viewing sites.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 ひ め ゆ り の 塔 on the website of Kinem Jumpo magazine (Japanese)
- ↑ 1 2 Iwasaki, Akira . "Contemporary Japanese Cinema", 1958, (translated from Japanese 1962, Translators: Vladimir Grivnin, L. Levin), - M .: Art, 1962, P.186. (Russian)
- ↑ Blue Ribbon Award winners for their 1953 work on the IMDb website
- ↑ Kinema Junpo Top YBY on Rinkworks.com
Links
- Monument to Lilies on the Internet Movie Database
Literature
- Iwasaki, Akira . "Contemporary Japanese Cinema", 1958, (translated from Japanese 1962, Translators: Vladimir Grivnin, L. Levin), - M .: Art, 1962, P.524.
- Akira Iwasaki . “History of Japanese Cinema”, 1961 (translation from Japanese 1966, Translators: Vladimir Grivnin, L. Levin and B. Raskin). - M.: Art, 1966, S.320.
- "Director's Encyclopedia: Cinema of Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America", Research Institute of Motion Picture Arts, T. N. Vetrova (editor-in-chief), Materik. M., 2001, pp. 44–45. ISBN 5-85646-053-7 .