Word: konjiki
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...picture is a screen adaptation of Koyo Ozaki's Konjiki Yasha (Golden Demon); written at century's turn, it was one of the first Japanese novels ever set in the troubled here and unmitigated now, and it spurred the rising revolution in Japanese letters. As the picture tells it, the story is well calculated to soak as many crying towels as any other late Victorian romance. Miya (Fujiko Yamamoto) and Kan-ichi (Jun Negami), an orphan, grow up together in her father's house, fall in love, and are properly betrothed. A rich young man appears...
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