NO KISSING SCENES
JAPANESE FILMS Japan’s biggest movie studio has just finished a picture called “A Bride in Heaven,” which stars pretty 19 year old Akewi Sora in the leading role, writes an American correspondent. In a conversation with the leading lady and Tatsuo Itoh one of the executives of Ihe Schochriku studio near Yokohama, he discovered that there were never any kissing scenes in Japanese films and that American films were strietry censored before being shown there to avoid violating a moral code which considered kissing in public* to be improper. Akewi Sora was asked if sliv would consider portraying a love scene, American style, should movie customs change in Japan. She blushed and bowed her head, without answering. Itoh explained that Japancse girls were closely chaperoned liefore marriage and that it was not unusual that a movie heroine shoula be embarrassed at the suggestion of playing an American type of tova scene.
Love 'scenes in Japanese films wer« performed by means of hints of dialogue, smiles and lowered glances he said.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 40, 1 February 1946, Page 6
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173NO KISSING SCENES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 40, 1 February 1946, Page 6
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