Japanese Girls At The Harbor (1933) *

Dreadful silent melodrama directed by Hiroshi Shimizu. Very different from his later, magnificent sound films.  Released on June 1, 1933, this film includes scenes that are almost identical to scenes in Yasujiro Ozu's far superior crime melodrama "Dragnet Girl", released more than a month earlier, on April 27, 1933. But the film's main problem is a weak script by Mitsu Suyama, adapted from a unremarkable story by Tôma Kitabayashi.