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FIRST STEPS ASHORE
- 原題
- 上陸第一歩
- Original Title
- Joriku Dai Ippo
- Production Year
- 1932
- Running Time
- 88min
- Genre
- Drama
- Color
- Black & white
- Director
- Yasujiro SHIMAZU(島津保次郎)
- Cast
- Mizutani Yaeko, Oka Joji, Nara Shinyo
- Synopsis
- SHIMAZU's first all-sound film, this melodramatic adaptation of Josef von STERNBERG's "The Docks of New York"(28) features silent film era stars OKA Joji and MIZUTANI Yaeko. In the early days of talkies, it attempted to evoke port town atmosphere and gang action through the use of sound. When his ship enters port, boilerman SAKATA saves a woman named Sato who tries to commit suicide by throwing herself into the sea. She is hardheaded, but gradually opens up to him. When he tries to protect her from her pursuers, SAKATA finds himself embroiled in violence.