Crossroads (1928 film)

Jūjiro
Japanese movie poster
Directed byTeinosuke Kinugasa
Written byTeinosuke Kinugasa
Starring
  • Akiko Chihaya
  • Toshinosuke Bando
  • Yukiko Ogawa
CinematographyKōhei Sugiyama
Production
companies
  • Kinugasa Film Association
  • Shochiku (Kyoto studios)
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • 11 May 1928 (1928-05-11) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time
88 minutes[3]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese (intertitles)

Crossroads (十字路, Jūjiro), also known as Crossways, Shadows of the Yoshiwara or Slums of Tokyo, is a 1928 silent Japanese drama film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.[1][2][3] It is believed to be the first[4] or one of the first[5][6] Japanese films to be screened in Europe, and often mentioned in conjunction with Kinugasa's other avant-garde film, the two years earlier A Page of Madness.[4]

  1. ^ a b "十字路 (Crossroads)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b "十字路 (Crossroads)". Kinema Junpo (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  3. ^ a b "十字路 (Crossroads)". National Film Archive of Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  4. ^ a b "The Best Japanese Film of Every Year – From 1925 to Now". British Film Institute. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  5. ^ Richie, Donald (2005). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (Revised ed.). Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-4-7700-2995-9.
  6. ^ Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.