Across the Equator

Across the Equator
Production still
Directed byEiji Tsuburaya[a]
CinematographyEiji Tsuburaya[a]
Edited byChūzō Aochi
Music byNobuyoshi Shiraki
Production
companies
Nikkatsu[1]
Futosou Talkie[1]
Distributed byNikkatsu
Release date
  • January 15, 1936 (1936-01-15)[1]
Running time
86 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Across the Equator (Japanese: 赤道越えて, Hepburn: Sekidō Koete) is a 1936 Japanese propaganda documentary film directed by Eiji Tsuburaya in his directorial debut.[3] Produced and distributed by Nikkatsu,[2] it was shot by Tsuburaya from February to August 1935, whom traveled across the Pacific on the cruiser Asama.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Ragone 2014, p. 193.
  2. ^ a b "赤道越えて | 映画". Nikkatsu (in Japanese). Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  3. ^ "Nihon no eiga zukuri (Movie Making in Japan: A Screen Snap-shot). 1934 Sekido Koete (Across the Equator). 1936. Directed by Eiji Tsuburaya | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  4. ^ Matsuda 2001, pp. 10–12.


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