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The Morning Sun Shines

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The Morning Sun Shines
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Starring
Cinematography
  • Tatsuyuki Yokota
  • Torao Taishima
Production
company
Release date
  • 12 April 1929 (1929-04-12) (Japan)
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Running time
2,099 meters[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

The Morning Sun Shines (朝日は輝く, Asahi wa kagayaku) is a 1929 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina.[1] Intended as a promotional film for the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, it combines fictional and documentary elements.[2][3] Only a fragment of the film survives today.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "朝日は輝く". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  2. ^ McDonald, Keiko I. (1984). Mizoguchi. Boston: Twayne Publishers. p. 22. ISBN 9780805792959.
  3. ^ Miyao, Daisuke (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema. Oxford University Press. p. 142. ISBN 9780199731664.
  4. ^ Raine, Michael; Nordström, Johan, eds. (2020). The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 194–95. ISBN 9789089647733.
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