Ornamental Hairpin

1941 DramaComedy 75 minutes Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu

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About Ornamental Hairpin

At a Japanese mountain inn, a guest cuts his foot on an ornamental hairpin left by a woman who has already gone. The other guests start asking who she was. Kinuyo Tanaka is billed. Hiroshi Shimizu wrote and directed it from Masuji Ibuse's story Yottsu no yubune, The Four Bathtubs. The Japanese title is Kanzashi.

Cast & crew

More about Ornamental Hairpin

Wikidata times it at 75 minutes. Hiroko Kawasaki, Tatsuo Saitō, Chishū Ryū, Shinichi Himori, and Hideko Mimura are on the catalog cast. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Themes

  • A hairpin left at an inn
  • A cut foot
  • Guests who want a name
  • kanzashi
  • Kinuyo Tanaka
  • Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Ibuse
  • inn

Preservation

A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • The pin is a kanzashi, which is the Japanese title.
  • Ibuse's story is named for four bathtubs.
  • The Commons file uses the English title.

Scenes

  • A guest steps on the hairpin in the bath and the inn starts asking who left it.

Influenced by

  • Masuji Ibuse's Yottsu no yubune

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Ornamental Hairpin)

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