From Shintoho Kinema Nostalgia: 'Tsuki no Hikari (Terang Boelan)', 'Bengawan Solo', and 'Yasen Kangofu' Released on DVD for the First Time!

Tsuki no Hikari (Terang Boelan) The conclusion of an unrequited love! Words of a foreign land sworn to the moonlight! A Malay love song that deeply moves the heart! ■ The long-awaited first DVD release of a Shintoho tragic love musical film featuring Izumi Yukimura singing a passionate love song! ■ Set in wartime Malaya, this is a work that stands out for its lyricism among Shintoho films, unfolding amidst the soft atmosphere and exotic lyricism peculiar to the southern regions. ■ Southern lyricism x War drama x Musical memory. A story of memories of meetings and partings engraved in the songs of the south. ■ Director Shue Matsubayashi adapts the original story, which depicts the subtleties of humans living on the battlefield, into visual form with direction that brings out emotions through silence. Along with the natural features of the south, it is finished as a piece filled with quiet lingering emotions. ■ Hiroshi Ogasawara, playing a man assigned to a mission in a foreign land, expresses a quiet conflict oscillating between his given position and the emotions that sprout from his interactions with the local people. ■ Izumi Yukimura's singing voice envelops the entire story, bringing emotion to the narrative. Furthermore, her presence itself is depicted as a symbol of memory. ■ Yoichi Numata plays the heroine's brother, Yoko Mihara and Taiji Tonoyama are cast as locals, and Daisuke Kato and Shigeru Amachi appear as Japanese soldiers. ■ 'Terang Boelan' is an Indonesian popular song. It is said to have been composed in the first half of the 19th century by the poet Pierre-Jean de Béranger, and spread throughout Southeast Asia, mainly in Indochina. In Malaysia, new lyrics were attached, and it is officially sung as the national anthem. ■ First release: 1954 [Cast] Izumi Yukimura, Hiroshi Ogasawara, Yoichi Numata, Daisuke Kato, Taiji Tonoyama, Toshio Hosokawa, Den Kunikata, Shigeru Amachi Masaru Odaka, Yoko Mihara, Kenji Nakahara, Takeshi Shimazu, Toru Chiba, Shinji Suzuki, Kiyoshi Kusama, Shinji Arima Tatsuo Nishioka, Takashi Ito, Minoru Miyake, Mitsuru Date, Kyoji Mimura, Tadasu Takebe, Junko Mizuho, Masako Ichimura, Natsuko Okazaki Ikuko Takeuchi, Yoshiko Kato [Staff] Director: Shue Matsubayashi Original Story: Goro Hayami Screenplay: Matsuo Kishi Planning: Tatsuyoshi Shimamura Cinematography: Rokuro Nishigaki Art Direction: Seigo Shindo Music: Nobuo Iida Assistant Director: Shoji Segawa Special Effects: Shintoho Special Effects Malay Language Instruction: Mangai Suriayu Tsuki no Hikari (Terang Boelan) Translated Lyrics: Takao Saeki Composer: Nobuo Iida Vocals: Izumi Yukimura Minami no Hana Ekubo Lyrics: Takao Saeki Composer: Tadashi Yoshida Vocals: Izumi Yukimura [Story] One night after the war, night school teacher Kobayashi hears the southern song 'Terang Boelan' drifting from a street corner, and is pulled back to his memories of the wartime era. Showa 18 (1943). His unit was stationed in a small village in Malaya, and Kobayashi was assigned the task of teaching Japanese to the local people. A modest but peaceful time flowed in the classroom where he taught children how to read and write, but one of the students, a girl named Velda, had lost her parents in a Japanese bombing and harbored intense hatred towards the Japanese. She maintained a rebellious attitude even in the classroom, but as she came into contact with Kobayashi, who tried to interact with her with sincerity rather than military force, her closed heart gradually began to change. Before long, a quiet exchange that seemed unthinkable in wartime sprouted between Kobayashi and the villagers. However, on the other hand, the movements of anti-Japanese guerrillas gradually became active in the surrounding area, and a disturbing shadow crept into the atmosphere of the village. [Previously Released Related Works on the Label] Same genre: 'Quiet Dawn Battlefield from "Rainbow Over the Indian Ocean"', 'Military Police', 'Escape from the Soviet Union: Female Military Doctor and Fake Madman' Musical films: 'Journey of Wandering', 'Meteor', 'Longed-for Hawaii Route' Works by the same director: 'Human Torpedo Kaiten', 'Elegant Police Box Diary' Bengawan Solo A desperate love decorated with flowers of blood by deserters and a Java girl! The evening glow of death coloring Mount Medevi! ■ An exotic lyrical film that emotionally depicts people's meetings and partings is released on HD remaster DVD! ■ A unique war film colored by the famous song 'Bengawan Solo', leaving a quiet lingering resonance in the heart. ■ Set in Java just before the end of the war, it depicts the tragic love between three deserters and beautiful local sisters, and further unfolds a desperate struggle with the military police. ■ Ryo Ikebe, Hisaya Morishige, and Yunosuke Ito played the three deserters with different values and feelings. ■ Ryo Ikebe played the protagonist, who possesses both sincerity and conflict, and is said to embody the 'conscience' of the viewer. ■ Asami Kuji and Setsuko Wakayama, who played the Java sisters with contrasting personalities, received special training in the Malay language, and Asami Kuji also showcases singing in the original language. ■ Director Kon Ichikawa is said to have depicted humans as uncertain beings in contrast to great nature, expressing people not as good or evil, but as they are, as unfortunate contradictory beings. Furthermore, he focused on human relationships and changes in the atmosphere rather than dialogue, directing in a way that brings emotions to the surface in the silence. ■ The Solo River, flowing through the center of Java, is a special place where many legends are told and islanders entrust various dreams. ■ 'Bengawan Solo' is originally an Indonesian song. Japanese soldiers hummed it during the war, and after the war, Toshi Matsuda sang it with her own translated lyrics, becoming a huge hit. ■ First release: 1951 [Cast] Ryo Ikebe, Hisaya Morishige, Yunosuke Ito