Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, her mother, Alta, and Chaplin's valet Frank Yonemori, arrived from Honolulu aboard the SS President Coolidge. The group immediately took a train to Tokyo where they are shown engaging in three of Chaplin's favorite activities from his previous trip to Japan (with brother Sydney) in 1932: eating tempura (deep fried prawns),* attending a kabuki theater performance, and watching the sumo wrestling matches.
The Chaplin party will return to Japan once more at the end of May before heading home to California.
Above: The group eating tempura in a Tokyo restaurant (the date on the video is wrong).
Below: At the Kabuki theater & wrestling matches. These are pages from a photo album in the Chaplin Archives. I believe the handwriting is Paulette's (see enlarged versions here and here):
The Chaplin entourage will sail for Shanghai the next day, arriving on the 9th. More on that coming up in "Day By Day: 1936".
*During his 1932 visit, it was rumored that Chaplin ate 30-50 prawns in one sitting. Read more about Chaplin's previous visit to Japan from my "World Tour Revisited" series here and here.
I've never seen the actual film of them in the restaurant - it's fun to see them moving, instead of just in pictures.
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