"Young lady" - Young lady

Japanese: 《お嬢さん》 - おじょうさん
"Young lady" - Young lady

...In 1933, he joined Shochiku Kamata Studio as assistant director to Naruse Mikio, and in 1934 he joined Naruse at PCL (the predecessor of Toho). He was promoted to director with his first film, The Handmaiden (1937), an adaptation of a short story by Yoshiya Nobuko. After shooting the melodrama Pastoral Symphony (1938), an adaptation of the novel of the same name by André Gide, and Triumph of the Wings (1942), which could be considered a PR film for a new fighter plane, he was drafted and sent to the battlefields of China, returning home on the last repatriation ship in 1946. ...

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Japanese:

…1933年,松竹蒲田撮影所に入って成瀬巳喜男の助監督となり,34年,成瀬についてPCL(東宝の前身)に入社。吉屋信子の短編小説の映画化《お嬢さん》(1937)を第1作として監督に昇進する。アンドレ・ジッドの同名の小説を翻案映画化したメロドラマ《田園交響楽》(1938),新鋭戦闘機のPR映画ともいうべき《翼の凱歌》(1942)などを撮ったのち,召集されて中国の戦場に送られ,46年,最後の引揚船で帰還した。…

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