Tamiko the girl
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tamiko the girl |
| Original title | A girl named Tamiko |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Sturges |
| script | Edward Anhalt |
| production |
Hal B. Wallis Joseph H. Hazen |
| music | Elmer Bernstein |
| camera | Charles Lang |
| cut | Warren Low |
| occupation | |
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The Girl Tamiko is a 1962 American melodrama directed by John Sturges, starring Laurence Harvey in the male lead and France Nuyen in the title role. The story is based on the novel A Girl Named Tamiko by Ronald Kirkbride .
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Ivan Kalin, son of a Russian and a Chinese woman, “got stuck” in Japan as a result of the chaos of war in 1945. He's doing more than well as a photographer in Tokyo and is fed up with the country. His private life is largely determined by non-committal women acquaintances, who, however, do not really satisfy him on the inside. Kalin is desperately looking for an opportunity to emigrate to the USA. The US embassy employee Fay Wilson, who is attractive but outwardly rather cold, is not only married, but could also be his ticket across the pond to the other side of the Pacific, especially since the bored upper-class Throws Lady almost passionately at Ivan's neck in order to escape her gray everyday life with the much older husband Max. Only she is able to issue Ivan the required visa for America.
For Ivan, however, Fay is only a means to an end, he does not reciprocate her feelings. One day the Eurasier meets the beautiful and lovingly gentle Japanese girl Tamiko. Ivan is blown away and immediately falls in love with the delicate Japanese girl. But that means that all his plans to leave the country behind as quickly as possible are ruined. But Tamiko comes from a very traditional, conservative and aristocratic family who will never accept someone like him, a " Gaijin ". Ivan, secretly not untouched by racism and prejudice himself, now has to use all his powers of persuasion himself to dispel the prejudices and fears on the part of the Japanese and to prove that he can become a loyal, decent and good husband to Tamiko and that her honor cannot will pollute. And so Ivan decides to stay in Japan.
Production notes
The girl Tamiko was created on site in Japan and had its world premiere on December 27, 1962. The German premiere took place on January 25, 1963.
Paul Nathan took over the production management. Hal Pereira designed the film structures carried out by Walter H. Tyler , Sam Comer took on the equipment. Wally Westmore took care of the masks and makeup. Farciot Edouart took over the special photography, W. Wallace Kelley was the cameraman of the second team.
Reviews
In its February 13, 1963 issue, Der Spiegel wrote: “After Hollywood had racially persecuted the Japanese for two decades, it devised transpacific conflicts of a more harmless kind. (...) Veteran director John Sturges (“ City in Fear ”) renounced the production this play of light higher ambition. Its inking unit of normal length, produced in picture-sheet fashion, gives the impression of sitting in the cinema for a day. Leading actor Laurence Harvey ("The Way Up"), who works alongside the filmmaker on duty, France Nuyen ("South Pacific"), has proven to be persistently grumpy, true to his film reputation. "
“The Hyer eats Harvey in the red light of the darkroom; but so that the active woman doesn't look so bland, a spotlight throws white light through all the red on her profile. The few other formal endeavors of the film are of similar consequence. The film adaptation of the novel is kept in the more monotonous and-then-and-then style. "
"In Tokyo playing, bombastic soap opera."
"Melodramatic film adaptation of a novel with mediocre actors, whose main interest is the sentimental aspects of the material."
"Dull, romantic melodrama with dim performances."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel , Issue No. 7/1963
- ↑ The girl Tamiko. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 1, 2018 .
Web links
- The girl Tamiko in the Internet Movie Database (English)