NO KISSING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 7, 9 January 1946, Page 7

NO KISSING

G JAPANESE FILM MORALS ’ Japan’s biggest movie studio has ' ;ust finished a picture called “A Bride ' in Heaven,” which stars pretty 19-1 ' year-old Akemi Sora in the leading I 1 ' role, writes an American correspondJ ent. In a conversation with the leading lady and Tatsuo Itoh, one of the 1 executives of the Schochriku studio 1 near Yokohama, he discovered that , there were never any kissing scenes in 1 Japanese films and that American films were strictly censored before being shown there to avoid violating a moral code which considered kissing ■ in public to be improper. Akemi Sora was asked if she would i-onsidcr portraying a love scene, i American style, should movie customs . • change in japan. She blushed and 1 | bowed her head without answering. Iltoh explained that Japanese girls) 'were closely chaperoned before mar ! i riage and that It was not unusual that | la movie heroine should be embarrassed al the suggestion of playing an American type of love scene. Love scenes in Japanese films were i reformed by means of hints of dialogue, smiles, and lowered glances, he