Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dancing girl which comes to life and dances with him when he places a mirror, the Japanese symbol of a woman's soul, next to her heart. The speech is naturally modulated, emotions are patent on the faces, the scenery is as realistic as a vaudeville backdrop. In Kage-No-Chikara (The Shadow Man) a provincial lord steals the fiancee and murders the father of a peasant. This lad then learns the art of fighting and, with the aid of a sinister friend of his father's known as "The Shadow Man," wreaks revenge on the noble. This...