Friday, November 25, 2016

1931 Top_10_Movies

1931
( 1) Madamu to nyôbô (The Neighbor's Wife and Mine)
        Director: Heinosuke Gosho
        Production Co.: Shochiku
        Survival Status : Survives (57/64 min.)
( 2) Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
     (The Days of Heart: Episode "Raging Sun" and Episode "Moonlight")
        Director: Tomotaka Tasaka
        Production Co.: Nikkatsu
        Survival Status : Lost
( 3) Tôkyô no kôrasu (Tokyo Chorus)
        Director: Yasujirô Ozu
        Production Co.: Shochiku
        Survival Status : Survives
( 4) Ippon-gatana dohyo iri (Yakuza's Sumo Wrestling Ceremony)
        Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
        Production Co.: Chiezô Productions
        Survival Status : Lost
( 5) Hakurai bunmei-gai (A Street Civilized in a Foreign Style)
        Director: Taizô Fuyushima
        Production Co.: Tsukigata Productions
        Survival Status : Lost
( 6) Adauchi senshu (The Revenge Champion)
        Director: Tomu Uchida
        Production Co.: Nikkatsu
        Survival Status : Lost (*)
( 7) Nani ga kanojo o korishita ka (What Killed Her?)
        Director: Shigeyoshi Suzuki
        Production Co.: Shinko
        Survival Status : Lost
( 8) Rôgoku no hanayome (The Bride in the Prison)
        Director: Hirofumi Oki
        Production Co.: Bandô Tsumasaburô Productions
        Survival Status : Lost
( 9) Zoku ôoka seidan mazo kaiketsu-hen 
  (Ôoka Cases - Devil's Image - Conclusion)
        Director: Daisuke Itô
        Production Co.: Nikkatsu
        Survival Status : Lost
(10) Seikatsu-sen ABC (ABC Lifeline)
        Director: Yasujirô Shimazu
        Production Co.: Shochiku
        Survival Status : Lost   

The numbers of ranked titles of each Production Co, is as follows:
Nikkatsu : 3 (2, 6 and 9);
Shochiku : 3 (1, 3 and 10);
Shinko : 1 (7); and 
others : 3 (4, 5 and 8: (4) distributed by Nikkatsu, (8) by Shinko).

"Madamu to nyôbô" (1) is an all-talkie movie (the first one in Japan); and
"Hakurai bunmei-gai" (5) was a part-talkie movie.

"Madamu to nyôbô" (1) is available on DVD (japan ASIN: B00CIHVOH6).
"Tôkyô no kôrasu" (3) is available on DVD (Japan_ASIN: B00C2DX53M; USA_ASIN: B0012Z3630).
(*) The region code of Japanese DVD is "2".

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