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The Teahouse of the August Moon (Theatre)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Teahouse of the August Moon began life as a 1951 novel by Vern Schneider, which was adapted into a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1953 play, and then into a 1956 film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, and Machiko Kyo.The story, a comedy, is set in Okinawa in 1946, during the American occupation. Glenn Ford is Captain Fisby, a well-meaning but ineffectual officer sent by his commander, Col. Purdy, to Americanize the village of Tobiki. Sakini (Brando in Yellowface) is his interpreter, a wily local who manipulates Purdy and Fisby for the good of the village. Capt. Fisby arrives in Tobiki intending to execute the rather rigid American game plan for reconstruction — democracy unions, lectures on democratic government, a schoolhouse shaped like the Pentagon — but the locals win him over and convince him to build a teahouse and start a distillery. Capt. Fisby's willingness to accommodate the locals is increased when he is given (yes, given) a geisha named Lotus Blossom (Kyo) to look after his every need. Things are going swimmingly until a surprise visit from Col. Purdy (Paul Ford) threatens to ruin everything.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Something of a Playing Against Type role for Brando, who didn't do a lot of light comedies. Machiko Kyo's only English-language film. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: The opening scene features Sakini addressing the camera directly, setting the scene. The last scene ends with Sakini addressing the camera again, to tell the audience that the story is over. | |
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Door-Closes Ending: Almost. The paper door closes on Sakini, but there's a last shot of the tea house, with the August moon above it, before the movie ends. | |
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Bookends: Sakini addresses the audience at the beginning of the film and the end. | |
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Culture Clash: Much humor derives from the Eagleland nature of Col. Purdy and Capt. Fisby and how they react to the natives. | |
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Dramatic Irony: Col. Purdy says over the telephone that "It's bound to get lonely for you over there." As he says this Fisby, on the other end of the telephone, is desperately trying to fend off the attentions of Lotus Blossom, who is trying to strip off his uniform and dress him in Japanese fashion. | |
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