The Morning Sun Shines (1929)

04/12/1929 (JP) • 25m

Drama, Documentary

Overview

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of footage has survived.

Top Billed Cast

Takako Irie

girl in the elevator

Joji Oka

(as Susumu Minobe): Hiroo Karasaki, Head of Delegation

Eiji Nakano

Hayafusa

Ranko Sawa

Asako Akizuki

Heitaro Doi

Kōhei Akizuki


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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$25.00

Revenue

-

Keywords

newspaper

news

partially lost film

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