Director: Yoshida Kiju
Script: Yoshida Kiju, Tamaru Tsutomu, Yamada M.
Cinematographer: Okumura, Yuji
Editor: Ota Kazuo
Music: Matsumura Teizô
Cast: Okada Mariko, Kimura Isao, Ogawa Mayumi, Kusaka Takeshi, Kitamura Katzuo, Hosokawa T.
Production: Akira Oda
Distribution:
Carlotta Films
9 Passage de la Boule Blanche
75012 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.42.24.10.86
Fax: 0033 1.42.24.16.78
Mail: [email protected]
www.carlottafilms.com
Year: 1967
35 mm, B & W, 97 min,
OV Japanese with French Subtitles
Uneleased
Shingo and Ritsuko have a nineteen-month-old baby Takashi. People consider them a happy couple. However Ritsuko soon wants to find out the true father of Takashi who was born with artificial insemination. “A family without a child is like a boat without sails unable to move. And a boat unable to move is not a boat. “ K. Yoshida.
Kiju Yoshida’s magnificent film shot in sumptuous black and white reflects upon motherhood and mainly fatherhood, while it also questions the meaning of family.
