Japanese War Bride
Die japanische Kriegsbraut
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Shirley Yamaguchi, Don Taylor, Louise Lorimer
Japanese War Bride | Die japanische Kriegsbraut by King Vidor
USA 1952, Retrospective
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Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell
Japanese War Bride | Die japanische Kriegsbraut by King Vidor
USA 1952, Retrospective
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Marie Windsor, Louise Lorimer, Shirley Yamaguchi
Japanese War Bride | Die japanische Kriegsbraut by King Vidor
USA 1952, Retrospective
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King Vidor
Japanese War Bride | Die japanische Kriegsbraut by King Vidor
USA 1952, Retrospective
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American officer Jim Sterling is severely wounded in the Korean War. Recovering in a Japanese hospital, he is cared for by nurse Tae Shimizu. The two fall in love and get married. Jim brings his new bride home to his father’s ranch in Salinas, California, where the family treats them with goodwill, albeit reserve. However, Tae’s situation becomes difficult, and eventually untenable, after a neighbour blames her for the death of the woman’s son in a Japanese camp in Bataan in 1942. In addition, Tae’s sister-in-law spreads a rumour that the father of Tae’s son is not Jim, but a Japanese-American neighbour. Branded a “geisha girl”, Tae leaves her husband … Inter-cultural marriages were the subject of many US films in the 1950s. King Vidor’s anti-racist B movie draws a complex portrait of an unsettled society. The prejudices of the older generation stand in unforgiving contrast to the modern, cosmopolitan attitudes of the young. The model of how old rifts might be overcome is embodied in the film by a fully integrated Japanese-American family that embraces its American homeland despite having experienced discrimination.
With
- Shirley Yamaguchi
- Don Taylor
- Cameron Mitchell
- Marie Windsor
- James Bell
- Louise Lorimer
- Philip Ahn
- Sybil Merritt
- Lane Nakano
- Kathleen Mulqueen
Crew
| Director | King Vidor |
| Screenplay | Catherine Turney |
| Story | Anson Bond |
| Cinematography | Lionel Lindon |
| Editing | Terry Morse |
| Music | Emil Newman, Arthur Lange |
| Sound | Victor Appel, Ed Borschell |
| Art Director | Charles D. Hall |
| Costumes | Izzy Berne, Adele Parmenter |
| Assistant Director | Wilbur McGaugh |
| Producer | Joseph Bernhard |
Produced by
Bernhard Productions, Inc.
Additional information
Print: Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge MA