The son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian.The son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian.The son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian.
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- TriviaThis is the first three-color Technicolor feature to be released by Universal Pictures in the U.S.A.
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(1885) (uncredited)
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
Performed by chorus
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Great singing, wonderful production.
At the conclusion of the wonderful prologue (A Wand'ring Minstrel I), my wife and I broke into applause right there in the den. Can't remember our doing that before. One reason it's so good is that the director found a way to keep it in its stage home without being stagey. The key to this is editing -- lots of fast cuts among faces and angles. Given these, the camera can rejoice in the operetta's stage-centeredness: the chorus can file onstage in glorious pageant and wondrous costume; the singers can face the audience and extend their arms in that wonderful G&S take on the hamminess that underlies the proper Englishman. That's another great thing about this production. It's clearly about how *Englishmen* would look and act if someone transported them to a magical imaginary Japan whose dimensions are constrained only by only the few wisps of knowledge in the *English* mind. The singing is tops, the physical comedy is wonderful, and there's more good feeling in it than in the next 20 Hollywood feel-good movies you'll see.
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- Oct 21, 2000
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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