November 4, 2014, 6:45 p.m. — Poppy (1935)
Screenplay by Haruo Takayanagi, Daisuke Ito, based on a novel by Soseki Natsume. Special thanks to Alexander Jacoby and Johan Nordstrom. The story of a student torn between his engagement to a traditional girl from back home and the Westernized heiress who has won his love in Tokyo, this deft, naturalistic melodrama explores many of the fundamental conflicts in Mizoguchi’s work. With Daijiro Natsukawa, Ichiro Tsukita, Kazuyoshi Takeda. 73 min. Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Ninety percent of prewar Japanese cinema seems to be definitively lost, and of the films that do survive most are known only through poor 16mm duplicates. Poppy
1935.
