Across the Equator

Across the Equator
Production still
Directed byEiji Tsuburaya
CinematographyEiji Tsuburaya
Edited byChūzō Aochi
Music byNobuyoshi Shiraki
Production
companies
Nikkatsu
Futosou Talkie
Distributed byNikkatsu
Release date
  • January 15, 1936 (1936-01-15)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Across the Equator (Japanese: 赤道越えて, Hepburn: Sekidō Koete) is a 1936 Japanese propaganda documentary film directed by Eiji Tsuburaya in his directorial debut. Produced and distributed by Nikkatsu, it was shot by Tsuburaya from February to August 1935, whom traveled across the Pacific on the cruiser Asama.

Production

Traveling on the cruiser ship Asama, director and cinematographer Eiji Tsuburaya filmed the film in Hawaii, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. According to the Museum of Modern Art, the film was prepared by Yoshio Osawa of J.O. Studios in Kyoto as a request by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to illustrate contemporary developments in Japanese sound film techniques.

Release

Across the Equator was released in Japan on January 15, 1936 and was later screened at 4:00 p.m. on May 20, 2015, at the Museum of Modern Art.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Credited as Eiji Tsumuraya.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "赤道越えて | 映画". Nikkatsu (in Japanese). Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 Ragone 2014, p. 193.
  3. 1 2 3 "Nihon no eiga zukuri (Movie Making in Japan: A Screen Snap-shot). 1934 Sekido Koete (Across the Equator). 1936. Directed by Eiji Tsuburaya | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Matsuda 2001, pp. 10–12.