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Asian Studies

Singapore Management University

2018

Japan

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Designing Small Successes, Edwin Low Jun 2018

Designing Small Successes, Edwin Low

Research Collection Institute of Service Excellence

Edwin Low of Supermama talks about how he’s built his team and the differences between Singaporean and Japanese customers


Whose Blue Heaven? Musicality In The Early Japanese Talkies, Richard M Davis Mar 2018

Whose Blue Heaven? Musicality In The Early Japanese Talkies, Richard M Davis

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This article focuses on the advent of synchronized sound production in Japan in 1931 – three years later than the United States – and the generative ambiguities of how sound and music’s relationship to film was figured in that year’s anxious discourse. I argue that this ‘belatedness’ is echoed in relationships of on-screen image and offscreen sound, noise, and music in two important early sound films, The Neighbor’s Wife and Mine (Gosho 1931) and A Tipsy Life (Kimura 1933).