Souls on the Road (1921)
Note: this print runs 23 minutes against a recorded 91 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Denmei Suzuki
Directed by Minoru Murata
Souls on the Road (路上の霊魂, Rojō no Reikon) is a 1921 Japanese silent film directed by Minoru Murata. Film critic Mark Cousins wrote that it was "the first landmark film in Japanese history". The film's plot is adapted from Maxim Gorky's play, The Lower Depths, and Wilhelm Schmidtbonn's drama, Children on the Street.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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