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千人針 (Senninbari) [One Thousand Stitches / The 1000 Stitch Belt]

Film Synopsis

The title “Senninbari” or “One Thousand Stitches” refers to the metre-long belt composed of a thousand stitches which the hero’s grandmother prepares for him. These strips of cloth were given to soldiers as they left for war, and symbolised luck, protection, and well-wishes from loved ones. The film is a memento of bellicose times, made when Japan, which had already annexed Manchuria, launched a full-scale war with China.

This was the third film produced by Dai Nihon Tennenshoku Eigasha, a production company that pioneered colour cinema in Japan. They used the American two-strip colour process Cinecolor. On the film’s release, the Kinema Junpo reviewer praised the improvement of the process in comparison with the studio’s first film, Tsukigata Hanpeita (Seika Shiba, 1937), but suggested that the work was lacking in dramatic terms.

AFA [https://arc.asianfilmarchive.org/2017/senninbari/]

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Film Details

Alternate Titles: One Thousand Stitches / The 1000 Stitch Belt

Language: Japanese

Original Production Country: Japan

Original Release Year: 1937

Original Elements Held By: GFF Moscow (Fragment only)

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Production Company: Dai Nihon Tennenshoku Eigasha

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Director: Genjiro Saegusa

Writer: Genjiro Saegusa

Cinematography: Sukeshige Urushiyama

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Other Credits: Cast: Matsunosuke Fukui, Kuni Sugiura, Hoshiko Tachibana, Fumio Wakamatsu

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

Colour System: Colour

Colour Process: Cinecolor

Duration: 19 mins

Restoration Details

Status: Released

Country Where Restored: Japan

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Country Restoration First Screened: Singapore

Lab Image Restored By: Imagica & Imagica West

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Archive Partner(s) in Restoration: GFF Moscow & NFAJ (NFC) Tokyo

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IMAGICA; Asian Film Archive; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; AWRA

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Since 2012, Restoration Asia has been a showcase for the work of archives, technical service providers and distributors in their efforts to preserve the audio-visual heritage of Asia.

Restoration Asia is coordinated by OWL Studio, and is designed for archivists, scholars, students and professionals as well as those with a shared passion for the preservation and restoration of Asian Cinema & Asia’s cinematographic history.

レストレーションアジアは、アジア内外のアーカイブ、技術サービスプロバイダー、そして配給業者の仕事を紹介すると共に、アジアの映像遺産を保存する取り組みに焦点を当てます。

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