Director: Naruse Mikio
Script: Mizuki Yôko after Kawabata Yasunari's novel
Cinematographer: Tamai Masao
Editing: Ooi Eiji
Art Setting: Shuko Satoru
Sound: Shimonaga Hisashi
Music: Saito Ishiro
Cast: Hara Setsuko, Yamamura So, Uehara Ken, Nagaoka Teruko, Nakakita Chieko, Sugi Yoko, Sumi Rieko
Production: Toho
Distribution:
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Year: 1954
Screening: 2019
DCP, Color, 96 min,
O.V. Japanese with French Subtitles
Singo, an old businessman, feels deep affection for his daughter-inlaw, Kikuko, who devotes herself to her husband and her in-laws. The young couple is childless and their relationship unstable. The day the young woman discovers she is pregnant, she decides not to give birth, questioning the future of her marriage.
“We understand that Naruse is a great film director in that he succeeds in suggesting, uniquely through pictures and sounds, the pain felt by his characters. In each of his films, this director conducts the modulations of that invisible life which, when filmed, constitutes material that is hard to deal with.” Nicolas Debarle - Eastasia
One of Naruse’s favourite films. He himself proposed to Toho to adapt Kawabata’s novel which he found fascinating.
