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Auction History Result 7j954 GIRLS HAND IN HAND Japanese '52 American Margaret O'Brien helps orphan Hibari Misora, rare! Date Sold 5/31/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Japanese "B2" Movie Poster (measures 20 1/4" x 28 5/8" [51 x 73 cm]) (Learn More) Futari no Hitomi (supposedly released in the U.S. in 1953 as "Girls: Hand in Hand"; see below), the 1952 Shigeo Nakaki Japanese post-World War II (WWII) teenage war orphan melodrama (about a teenage American girl who travels to Japan circa 1950, with her diplomat father, and while he is off doing his business, she meets a younger Japanese war orphan who, together with her siblings, have been denied admittance to a state-owned orphanage because they are not allowed to take their dog, and the American girl sets about trying to build an American church-sponsored orphanage that will admit them) starring Hibari Misora, Margaret O'Brien, Hikaru Hoshi, Mitsuko Miura, Tetsu Nakamura, and John Norton. Note that fans of older Japanese movies are familiar with American star Nick Adams traveling to Japan in the early 1960s to add American appeal to rubbery monster movies, but this movie predates those by nearly a decade! The Japanese movie industry was struggling to reestablish itself in the very early 1950s, and someone had the bright idea to bring in Margaret O'Brien, who had left MGM as she entered adolescence, but who still had real star appeal, and her name would likely add to the box office of this movie. They teamed her with Japanese juvenile star Hibari Misora, who also sang, and the result was a pretty charming movie, which included a few songs, including one with O'Brien and Misora singing a duet, each wearing the clothes of their respective country! The movie was released in Japan in late 1952, and the IMDb says it was released in the U.S. in "1953", but it gives no specifics, and we don't know that there really was a U.S. release (and it seems likely that if there was, it was probably solely at arthouse theaters, perhaps only in major cities, especially New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco). This is sadly a completely forgotten film today, but it deserves to be "rediscovered", both because of the quality of the movie and because of its historical significance (likely the very first post-war Japanese movie to feature an American star). If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this "country of origin" poster for this Japanese movie is incredibly rare. We have never seen any other poster from this movie before! Condition: good to very good. The poster was never folded, but it was handled roughly while it was rolled, and there are now a large number of light horizontal creases throughout the poster, with a few vertical creases as well. There are some tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss in the borders. In spite of these defects, the poster displays well, and of course, it can easily be linenbacked if the new owner desires. Learn More about condition grades 
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