The Exhibition of Film for Japanese-Americans in Los Angeles during the Silent Film Era

Film History

Ogihara Junko

Serial

4

2

1990

84-87

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Japanese films of this early silent era were screened in the presence of a benshi, or an actor/interpreter, who "not only explained the story on the cards, but actually acted it out." Men or women could act as a benshi, and space on a stage at the Fuji-kan had to be made to accommodate them;

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