Connection
The Daughter of the Samurai is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Mansaku Itami with Setsuko Hara
The Daughter of the Samurai (1937)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listThe Daughter of the Samurai (German: Die Tochter des Samurai, Japanese: Atarashiki Tsuchi, 新しき土 (The New Earth)) is a 1937 German-Japanese drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami and starring Setsuko Hara, Ruth Eweler and Sessue Hayakawa. Its Japanese title was Atarashiki tsuchi, meaning "New Earth." It was the first of two co-productions between Japan and Nazi Germany. Franck, who was famous for making mountaineering films, was possibly chosen as director because of his connections to the Nazi Party. Fanck and Itami clashed a great deal during the film's production, and in effect created two separate versions for release in their respective countries.
Synopsis
Yamato Teruo (Isamu Kosugi) returns to Japan after spending six years at an agricultural college in Germany. Teruo is the adopted son of an old samurai family, and is expected to marry the eldest daughter, Mitsuko (Setsuko Hara). However, Teruo has become infected with the idea of Western individualism during his stay in Europe, and refuses to bow to the demands of society. Instead, he confounds his future father-in-law Yamato Iwao (Sessue Hayakawa) by announcing that he intends to marry a German journalist, Gerda Storm (Ruth Eweler), whom he met on the ship back to Japan. Gerda, however, is a blond, chaste, Aryan woman, and will not agree to a mixed-race relationship. She attempts to convince him of his duty to the Japanese race and traditions and to reconcile him with his family.Actors
Setsuko Hara
(Misuko Yamato)
Sessue Hayakawa
(Iwao Yamato)
Ruth Eweler
(Gerda Storm)
Isamu Kosugi
(Teruo Yamato)
Haruyo Ichikawa
(Hideko Kanda)
Yuriko Hanabusa
(Oiku, the Maid)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to The Daughter of the Samurai
There are 102 films with the same actors, 17 films with the same director, 68022 with the same cinematographic genres (including 13375 with exactly the same 2 genres than The Daughter of the Samurai), 6889 films with the same themes (including 3827 films with the same 2 themes than The Daughter of the Samurai), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked The Daughter of the Samurai, you will probably like those similar films :
A German Robinson Crusoe (1940)
, 1h21Directed by Arnold Fanck
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Herbert A.E. Böhme, Marieluise Claudius, Claus Clausen, Oskar Marion, Ludwig Schmid-Wildy
Rating68%
During World War I, the German cruiser SMS Dresden is attacked by British ships off the coast of Chile. The crew manages to abandon ship before it sinks. They make their way to an isolated island where they are taken prisoner. After spending three years in custody, the sailors manage to escape and make their way back to Germany, intending to continue fighting for their Fatherland. When they arrive, however, they encounter a different Germany from the one they left behind—one where they are ridiculed and attacked by mutineers.
Storm Over Mont Blanc (1930)
, 1h33Directed by Arnold Fanck
Origin German
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Friedrich Kayßler, Mathias Wieman, Harald Reinl
Rating62%
Meteorologist Hannes (Sepp Rist) works alone at a remote weather station below the summit of Mont Blanc in the French Alps. Every day he gathers data on weather conditions. When the weather is clear, he is able to use his telescope to gaze down at the town of Chamonix in the valley far below. His solitary life is interrupted only by the daily weather reports he transmits via Morse code to various weather centers throughout Europe. He is also able to listen to his friend Walter perform his organ concerts on the radio.
S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)
, 1h17Directed by Tay Garnett, Arnold Fanck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Leni Riefenstahl, Gibson Gowland, Gustav Diessl, Sepp Rist, Rod La Rocque
Rating62%
Une expédition part à la recherche d'un groupe de scientifiques égaré un an auparavant…
S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)
, 1h30Directed by Tay Garnett, Arnold Fanck
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Leni Riefenstahl, Rod La Rocque, Gustav Diessl, Hans Richter, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland
Rating65%
Une expédition part à la recherche d'un groupe de scientifiques égaré un an auparavant…
The Wrath of the Gods (1914)
, 56minutesDirected by Reginald Barker
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki (青木 鶴子), Frank Borzage, Thomas Kurihara, Henry Kotani, Gladys Brockwell
Rating59%
Baron Yamaki (Sessue Hayakawa) is a fisherman who lives along with his daughter Toya San (Tsuru Aoki) on an island. The island is inhabited by Buddhists and Yamaki had been cursed by Buddha for an affront by one of his ancestors who in a murderous rage, defiled an altar of Buddha in the nearby temple. The curse was that if his daughter married anyone, then the nearby volcano would erupt. Toya finds it difficult to form relationships with boys because the village prophet Takeo (Thomas Kurihara) has spread the rumour that she is cursed. She is therefore unwilling to continue her father's acceptance of the curse. When Yamaki takes Toya-san to the Buddha shrine in the garden of his house to pray and try to get the curse removed, she vents her feelings about the god's unfairness.
Yoshiwara (1937)
, 1h42Directed by Max Ophüls
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa, Roland Toutain, Lucienne Le Marchand, André Gabriello, Camille Bert
Rating64%
Yoshiwara est le quartier réservé de Tokyo, où les geishas exercent leur métier. Afin de sauver leur patrimoine familial en danger, les parents de Kohana envoient celle-ci se prostituer. Là, elle fait la connaissance de plusieurs personnages, dont le lieutenant russe Serge Polenoff et le coolie Isamo. La rivalité amoureuse des deux hommes va finir en drame.
Tokyo March (1929)
, 1h41Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Shizue Natsukawa, Isamu Kosugi, Takako Irie, Kōji Shima
Rating65%
Il existe deux versions de ce film dans son montage court. Une française, muette, restaurée en 1999 par la Cinémathèque française à partir d'une copie-travail nitrate provenant de ses collections et une japonaise presque identique mais plus courte, il manque par exemple quelques scènes du mariage d'Orie et de Yukichi, mais commentée par un benshi. Les intertitres des deux versions comportent des différences. Le synopsis ci-dessous se base sur la version japonaise.
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
, 2h8Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa, Tommy Kirk
Rating70%
A family on their way to New Guinea is chased by pirates into a storm. The captain and crew abandon the ship leaving the family shipwrecked off an uninhabited island. Father (John Mills) and his two eldest sons Fritz and Ernst (Tommy Kirk and James MacArthur) salvage as much as they can from the wreck including livestock, tools, and even an organ. As they gather what can be removed from the ship, the pirates return and begin shooting at the ship. Fritz and Ernst begin readying the ship's cannon, but they only have one shot. Suddenly, the pirates turn around; Father has put up a flag indicating the ship is under quarantine and that there is Black Death aboard. The three men construct a tree house home on the island while the youngest boy Francis (Kevin Corcoran) investigates the wildlife and starts an impressive collection of animals including a young elephant, a capuchin monkey and two Great Danes rescued from the ship which they name Duke and Turk. Mother (Dorothy McGuire) prays to be rescued. The boys, particularly Ernst, also build inventions to provide modern amenities to the family such as drawing water and preserving food.
The Giant (1938)
, 2h7Directed by Mansaku Itami
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Denjirō Ōkōchi, Setsuko Hara, Yoshio Kosugi, Shin Date, Yuriko Hanabusa, Osamu Takizawa
Rating67%
Japon, 1877. Lors de la rébellion de Satsuma, Ryoma Seike qui se bat dans l'armée rebelle dirigée par Saigō Takamori est blessé dans un combat de rue à Kumamoto. Il est sauvé par Sanpei qui le ramène chez lui. Soigné par la belle Chiyo, les deux jeunes gens tombent amoureux.
Tokyo Joe (1949)
, 1h28Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Sessue Hayakawa, Alexander Knox, Teru Shimada, Florence Marly, Harold Goodwin
Rating62%
After World War II, ex-serviceman Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) returns to Tokyo to see if there is anything left of his pre-war bar and gambling joint ("Tokyo Joe's") after all the bombing. Amazingly, it is more or less intact and being run by his old friend Ito (Teru Shimada). Joe is shocked to learn from Ito that his wife Trina (Florence Marly), who he thought had died in the war, is still alive. Believing her to be dead, Joe inadvertently deserts her and she has divorced Joe and is now married to Mark Landis (Alexander Knox), a lawyer working in the U.S. Occupation HQ. She has a seven-year-old child, Joe's daughter Anya (Lora Lee Michel), born when Trina was in an internment camp after Joe's departure from Japan just before Pearl Harbor.