May 6, 2012

Chocolate to heitai

chocolate

Drama aka "Chocolate and Soldiers"
-Year: 1938
-Year in film: before 1920s ??
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: girl Shigeko 14 yo, sailor dress
-Who in clothing 2:
-Available on DVD: no ?
-I own: no
-Clothing occurence: medium ?
-Rating: 3/10 ?
-Rating: ***
-Comment: At least one teen girl probably Hideko Takamine (1924-2010) in a sailor dress (school uniform / seifuku). Maybe also other actors? Also a young boys, but probably not in sailor suits.

I found this some few months ago during research for the "NHK boy drama series" (rating 5). I still can't find any clips and only this one pic (taken from http://forest-baku.blog.ocn.ne.jp/aozora/2011/01/ ), some more infos at http://toita1214.exblog.jp/17684887/ .

Directed by Takeshi Sato, novel by Masaru Kobayashi. Japanese title "チョコレートと兵隊". I can't say much more about this film. Maybe it is related to the 1908 operetta "The Chocolate Soldier" aka Der tapfere Soldat by Oscar Straus. I first thought of a 1930s  WWII related film, but I think the novel is published in the 1920s or earlier. I also can't find much about the author. Mabe it's a propaganda movie.

I also can't find any DVD nor VHS release, but research is hard as I don't know Japanese.

Rating 2 for now, but it's maybe a very good film. I have to check this again later.

No comments:

Post a Comment

This blog is hosted by Google.

According to GDPR/DSGVO you agree to Google's terms and policies https://policies.google.com/

You agree that your IP-address, name and date are saved.
You can comment anonymously and you can ask me for deleting comments.