Does 20s Japanese Film Jasei No In Survive?

[filmnotdigital]

Hi: I resaw the classic Kenji Mizoguchi film "Ugetsu" yesterday at the Pacific Film Archive and, reading up on it again, was
reminded that there was a previous 1920s Japanese movie, "Jasei No In," which used one of the Ueda Akinari stories that
"Ugetsu" was based on. In English translation it is given as "The Lewdness Of The Viper" or "The Obscenity Of The Viper" and was directed by Thomas Kurihara, who had been a cameraman for Thomas Ince.
I see that Pordenone is doing some Japanese silents this year. Does anyone know if "Jasei No In" survives?

[Tintin]

It's not listed in the FIAF database, but I don't know how good their coverage of Asian archives is.

[filmnotdigital]

Thanks, Tintin. I saw subsequently that in Joanne Bernardi's 1984 Columbia University thesis on "Ugetsu," she noted that "no prints are known to exist" as of "Jasei No In" but I hope that either she was incorrect or that a print has since surfaced in the past 30 years.

[kaleidoscopeworld]

Japanese silent films have a notoriously terrible survival rate, so odds are that it's lost.

[Gaucho]

Thanks, Tintin. I saw subsequently that in Joanne Bernardi's 1984 Columbia University thesis on "Ugetsu," she noted that "no prints are known to exist" as of "Jasei No In" but I hope that either she was incorrect or that a print has since surfaced in the past 30 years.

The most recent catalog for the National Museum of Modern Art's Film Center (the definitive source for surviving Japanese films) does not list this.

[goalieboy82]

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[Christopher Jacobs]

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[Silencebound]

I will looking for that film and as well for many others from the other sources in Japan. To let you all know that I've succeed found eight lost fragments from Japan but no title is yet being given and haven't upload the frame pictures just yet. Will announce it very soon.