词条 | The Curse of Iku |
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| name =The Curse of Iku | image =The Curse of Iku (1918) - 1.jpg | alt = | caption =1920 advertisement for Ashes of Desire | film name = | director =Frank Borzage | producer = | writer =Sam Small Jr. | screenplay = | story = | based on = | narrator = | starring ={{Plainlist|
}} | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio =Perfection Pictures The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company[1] | distributor =George Kleine System | released = {{Film date|1918|03|01|USA}} | runtime =7 reels | country =United States | language =Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }}The Curse of Iku is a 1918[2] American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and featuring Borzage, Tsuru Aoki, and Thomas Kurihara in lead dual roles. It is not known whether the film currently survives.[3] PlotAs described in a film magazine,[4] Carroll (Borzage), an American sailor, is shipwrecked on the coast of Japan, and is befriended by a Japanese prince. As Americans are banned from the country, he is sentenced to being tortured but Iku, his prosecutor, is killed. Iku dies cursing Carroll, who escapes with Iku's sister, Omi San (Aoki). Fifty years later Iku the third is sent to America to learn its customs. He falls in love with Virginia Stafford and, learning that she is the fiancé of Allan Carroll III (Borzage) and remembering his ancestor's band of hate, he kidnaps Virginia, takes her to Japan and marries her according to Japanese custom. Carroll comes to Japan and locates Virginia. A terrible struggle ensues in which Iku meets his death and Virginia is rescued. With the death of Iku, the curse is lifted. Cast
ProductionIn 1919 the film was reedited down to six reels with new intertitles, which changed the location of the action to the Malaysian coast, and released under state's rights basis with the title Ashes of Desire.[3] ReceptionLike many American films of the time, The Curse of Iku was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 1, of the Japanese man murdering foreigner and wiping bloody sword, Reel 3, four closeup torture scenes showing young woman and flash four others, four scenes of crucifixion, Reel 4, all scenes of white woman in Japanese man's room, all scenes of Japanese man looking through keyhole into young woman's room and reflection in his eye, Reel 5, two scenes of Japanese man pouring chloroform on handkerchief, three scenes of slugging woman's father, attack on young woman in automobile and chloroforming her, scene of man being dragged from river, Reel 6, Japanese woman with hypodermic needle in hand, the intertitle "Iku gives you choice; will you be his dutiful wife or the plaything of the rabble?", two scenes of young American woman fighting with Japanese man, closeup of "woman tamer" leering through barred doors, Reel 7, stabbing of Japanese woman, two closeups of fight where daggers are used, and closeup of Japanese man with blood flowing from mouth.[5] References1. ^{{cite book|last=Schaffer|first=Ronald|title=America in the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TEKW9x80EAgC&pg=PA14|year=1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-536428-6|page=14}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Thomson|first=David|authorlink=David Thomson (film critic)|title=The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 6th Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-8bBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT299|date=13 November 2014|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=978-0-349-14111-4|page=299}} 3. ^1 Progressive Silent Film List: The Curse of Iku at silentera.com 4. ^{{cite journal |title=Reviews: The Curse of Iku |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=6 |issue=13 |page=25 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=March 23, 1918 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald06exhi}} 5. ^{{cite journal |title=Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=6 |issue=12 |page=29 |date=March 16, 1918 |url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorsherald06exhi#page/n522/mode/1up}} External links
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