Maple Leaf Viewing

Name: Maple Leaf Viewing
Released: 1899
Duration: 6 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Danjuro Ichikawa, Kikugoro Onoe V

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📅 1899 ⭐ 5.8 🕐 6m

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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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