Souls on the Road

1921 film

8 April 1921 (1921-04-08)

CountryJapanLanguageSilent film

Souls on the Road (路上の霊魂, Rojō no Reikon) is a 1921 Japanese silent film directed by Minoru Murata. Film critic Mark Cousins wrote that it was "the first landmark film in Japanese history".^[1]

References

^ Mark Cousins (4 October 2006). The Story of Film. Da Capo Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-56025-933-6. Retrieved 10 April 2013.

Daisuke Miyao (4 March 2013). The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5422-2. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
Eric Cazdyn (14 October 2002). The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8391-8. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
Joanne Bernardi (2001). Writing in light: the silent scenario and the Japanese pure film movement. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2961-0. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (2008). Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s And 1930s. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3182-0. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
Donald Richie (27 May 2005). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, With a Selective Guide to Dvds And Videos. Kodansha International. ISBN 978-4-7700-2995-9. Retrieved 10 April 2013.