Director: Naruse Mikio
Script: Yamada Nobuo
Cinematographer: Aizawa Yuzuru
Editing: Ohi Hideshi
Art Setting: Chuko Satoshi
Music: Takemitsu Toro
Cast: Tsukasa Yokor, Kayama Yuzo, Kusabue Mitsuko, Mori Mitsuko, Kato Daisuke, Tsuchiya Joshio
Production: Toho
Distribution:
Les Acacias
63, rue de Ponthieu
75008 Paris
France
0033 1 56 69 29 30
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Year: 1967
Screening: 2019
DCP, Color, 108 min,
OV Japanese with French Subtitles
Yumiko Eda and her husband Hiroshi are getting ready to emigrate to the United States. In a few months’ time, the young woman who is pregnant will give birth to their first child. But Hiroshi is knocked down by a car and dies suddenly. Smitten by remorse, the car driver responsible for the accident decides to pay a pension to the young widow and to keep in touch with her.
They see each other several times and develop a mutual affection which they refuse, for multiple reasons, to acknowledge. In this last film, made two years before he died, Naruse paints the portrait of impossible love in this couple with great sensitivity