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Maple Leaf Viewing
Maple Leaf Viewing
Action, Fantasy, Music 11/28/1899

Maple Leaf Viewing (1899)

"Taira no Koremochi defeats the Kijo Momiji."

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A reel of the Noh drama Momiji-gari, in which Danjuro Ichikawa played opposite Onoe Kikugoro V as an ogress who has disguised herself as the Princess Sarashina. Filmed by Shibata Tsunekichi in the open air on a windy day in November 1899, Danjuro would allow only the one take, so that when his fan blew away in mid-performance the scene had to stay. The film re-emerged at the Kikikan theatre in 1907 where it was a great success and inspired a wave of fiction filmmaking based on traditional Japanese narratives.

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1899 - 紅葉狩り Momijigari - Shibata Tsunekichi (Nihon Sossen Katsudo Shashinkai)
紅葉狩 [Maple Leaf Viewing] (Shibata Tsunekichi, 1899), Japanese/English, new soundtrack

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