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Female Stars Are Born Gender, Lighting Technology, and Japanese Cinema by Daisuke Miyao, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures Female Stars Are Born Gender, Lighting Technology, and Japanese Cinema by Daisuke Miyao, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures “It is no comparison. My mother had a much ers’ sensory perceptions better acting skill than my father. My father’s of materiality. Thus, con- acting was like, ‘I will show you how I can trary to onnagata, Aoki’s perform,’ but mother’s was so natural that we newness was based on the were able to watch it in a relaxed manner. image of physical sexual- MyI father knew about it very well.”1 The late ity, using photographic Hayakawa Yukio, son of silent film superstar technologies to enhance Sessue Hayakawa—the first and arguably the physical characteristics. only Asian matinee idol in Hollywood—thus Onnagata express their talked about his famous father and lesser-known emotions in the movement stepmother, Aoki Tsuruko (1891-1961). of entire bodies, special configuration with other Yukio’s stepmother, known as Tsuru Aoki, actors, and surrounding was a renowned actress in early American cin- décor; long shots and flat ema. In fact, Aoki was the first female Japanese lighting are more suit- motion picture actor. In Japan, the first female able to display their per- motion picture actor did not appear until argu- formance than close-ups ably as late as 1918 when Hanayagi Harumi with make-up and special starred in Sei no kagayaki [Radiance of Life]. lighting. The March 1917 Before this film, the majority of female charac- issue of Katsudo Gaho, ters in motion pictures were played by onna- an early Japanese film gata, female impersonators in kabuki. Even in magazine, for instance, 1919, only three films out of about 150 films juxtaposes a still photo of released in Japan during that year used female Tachibana Teijiro, popular actors for female roles.2 onnagata in a 1917 film Aoki’s stardom had different modes of recep- Futari Shizuka, and a por- tion and complicated meanings in varied geo- trait of Myrtle Gonzalez, a graphical and historical sites. Initially formed in Hollywood star. While the the early period of the American film industry, latter is a sensual close- Aoki’s star image was rearticulated within vari- Tsuru Aoki and Sessue Hayakawa in Hollywood. Picture-Play 4.1 (March 1917): 64. up of the actor’s face and ous and contradictory political, ideological, and naked shoulders in low-key cultural contexts in the United States and in Japan during the period of lighting, dramatically highlighted with sidelight from the left, the former public circulation. Within Aoki’s star image, there was a transnational is a flat-lit long shot. Even though it is not clear how faithfully this still war of images about “Japan,” “Japaneseness,” and “Japanese woman- photo represents the actual scene in the film, this example implies how hood” among the actor herself, the filmmakers, and the various audi- the Japanese film with onnagata emphasizes visibility of the theatrical tab- ences. In the United States, despite her skillful acting, she became the leaux in diffused lighting, rather than dramatically enhancing fragmented first of the line of the Orientalist depiction of Asian women in Hollywood body parts or anything within the frame via lighting and make-up.3 cinema, preceding such actors as Anna May Wong, Shirley Yamaguchi, The images of female stars in Japan, therefore, needed to skillfully Lucy Liu, and Zhang Ziyi. Japanese reception of Aoki’s stardom was com- pletely different. Being a successful actor in early Hollywood, Aoki was a incorporate Hollywood-style close-up and make-up in the tableaux-style representative of modernism and Americanism. composition and flat lighting of a kabuki convention. As such, Aoki’s professional achievement in the United States had a tremendous impact The technology of cinematic lighting is one of the fascinating issues on the discourse of modernization of cinema in Japan. In the early 1910s, behind the emergence of female stars in Japanese cinema. Despite cin- it was primarily young intellectuals—ranging from film critics and film- ema’s innate status as a technological medium, scholars of film studies makers to government officials—who began to criticize mainstream have focused more on analyses of stories and themes, and their relations commercial films in Japan. They decried films made in Japan as slavish to sociopolitical and economic contexts. Integration of theory and prac- reproductions of Japanese theatrical works. They promoted a reform tice via analyzing technologies of female stardom will bring the discipline of motion pictures in Japan through the production of “modern” and of film studies into the next stage. “purely cinematic” films. Their writings and subsequent experimental When Aoki’s stardom was formulated in Hollywood, such photo- filmmaking are often noted as the Pure Film Movement. graphic techniques as close-up, artificial three-point lighting, and soft The Pure Film advocates criticized mainstream commercial Japanese focus were used for film stars both in their films and publicity photos in motion pictures for being “uncinematic” because, for the most part, they order to emphasize actors’ physical characteristics and convey sensual were merely reproducing stage repertories of kabuki, most typified by the attraction and psychological states, which could go beyond the logic of use of onnagata for female roles. Behind their words lay their irritation the film narratives. While serving for the narrative clarity and consistency that Japan was far behind European countries and the United States in the on one hand, these photographic techniques could also enhance the view- development of motion pictures as a modern art form.4 They eventually 10 October 2011 intended to export Japanese-made films to foreign markets and affirm Cinema has always been at the forefront of transnational culture form Japanese national identity internationally and domestically. These crit- from the early period of its history. Aoki’s career in the global film culture ics claimed that the only way Japanese film would become exportable reveals that stardom is an ongoing process of negotiation, a transnational to foreign markets was to imitate the forms and styles of foreign films. negotiation, in particular. Tsuru Aoki’s stardom, which provided a tem- This rather contradictory attitude was in accordance with the political plate of a female stardom in Japan, reveals the historical trajectory of discourses of modernization in Japan. In order to obtain recognition as a American images of Japan and of Japanese self-images in the world. ■ nation in international relations, the Japanese government had adopted NOTES policies showing their movement toward modernization to Western stan- 1. Qtd., in Nogami Hideyuki, Seirin no o Hayakawa Sesshu [King of dards since the late nineteenth century. This dual attitude of the Japanese Hollywood, Sessue Hayakawa] (Tokyo: Shakai shiso sha, 1986), p. 62. government between modernization and nationalism was indicated by 2. Saso Tsutomu, 1923 Mizoguchi Kenji Chi to rei [1923 Mizoguchi their slogan, “Japanese Spirit and Western Culture” (Wakon yosai). The Kenji Blood and soul] (Tokyo: Chikuma shobo, 1991), p. 19. film reformists insisted on the mutual development of Japanese cinema 3. See Hideaki Fujiki, “Canonising Sexual Image, Devaluing Gender and Japanese national identity, using the American style of cinema. Performance: Replacing the Onnagata with Female Actresses in Japan’s Early Cinema,” in Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture These film reformists responded favorably to Aoki in terms of and Politics in Film, eds. Stephanie Dennison and Song Hwee Lim Americanism and nationalism. Her films were ideal products for the (London: Wallflower, 2006), pp. 147-60. reformists because they used “cinematic” forms and techniques, espe- 4. See Aaron Gerow, Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of cially continuity editing, naturalistic lighting and expressive pantomime, Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 (Berkeley: University that were both understandable to foreign audiences and successful in the of California Press, 2010). American market. Kinema Record journal noted, “[Aoki’s] eyes and mouth 5. Kinema Record 51 (November/December, 1917), p. 14. move as if she were European or American.”5 Katsudo Shahin Zasshi 6. Katsudo Shashin Zasshi 3, no. 12 (December 1917), n.p. magazine placed a portrait of Aoki in its photo gallery section and noted, Daisuke Miyao received a 2010 CSWS Faculty “Miss Aoki Tsuruko is a Japanese actress in the American film industry and Research Grant Award in support of his research she is one of the most popular stars…. We are fascinated by her sensual on this topic. He is the author of Cinema Is a Cat: 6 body and gorgeous facial expressions.” In early twentieth-century Japan, Introduction to Cinema Studies (Eiga wa neko dearu: there was a “Caucasian Complex” in the discourse of physical appearance. Hajimete no cinema studies), Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2011 Japanese bodies were considered shameful compared with well-built and (published in Japanese). well-balanced Western bodies. Aoki’s body presented a promising future for Japanese cinema that Western audiences would also appreciate. Sangita Gopal interview, continued from page 5 gious, shamanic figure—a woman, again—who comes and says, Here is what is going on and here is how we are going to heal you. The film says water companies that were owned by the government had to be deregu- repeatedly this type of isolated living is not enough. You have to retie the lated and opened up to the free market. The education system had to be bonds that were broken, return to the village and the belief systems that rendered over to the free market and to private agencies. you have lost, and only then can you secure your household. In some This privatization of the society and the economy from a welfare, ways, horror as a form and its emergence as a form at this moment, in this socialist state to a fully capitalist, free market state also has a reflex at the particular instantiation, which is urban and nuclear, is both a diagnosis micrological level of the family and the couple.
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