Japanese War Bride
About Japanese War Bride
Wounded in Korea, Jim Sterling falls in love with Tae Shimizu, a nurse in the Japanese hospital, and brings her home to rural California. Neighbors and family meet her with hostility. His sister-in-law Fran is the sharpest of them. A poison-pen letter claims the couple's child was fathered by a Japanese neighbor.
Cast & crew
More about Japanese War Bride
King Vidor directed. Catherine Turney wrote the screenplay from a story by Anson Bond, who produced with Joseph Bernhard, and Twentieth Century-Fox distributed it. Detroit saw it on December 31, 1951, and New York on January 29, 1952, as Shirley Yamaguchi's first American film.
Themes
Reviews
A. H. Weiler, in the New York Times, wrote that Vidor directed the homecoming without imagination, and that the poison-pen letter about the child's father brought in a suspicion of soap opera. He found the final reconciliation no higher than the rest of the approach.
Music
Arthur Lange and Emil Newman are credited with the music.
Notes
- Don Taylor plays Jim. Cameron Mitchell is his brother Art. Marie Windsor is Fran. James Bell and Louise Lorimer play Jim's parents, Ed and Harriet.
- Philip Ahn plays Eitaro Shimizu. Terry O. Morse edited. The film is also known as East Is East.
- Lionel Lindon photographed it.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Life of a Japanese Bride in America After World War 2 Documentary Drama 1952.webm)
