Film: Meshi, Naruse dir, 1951

It was an interesting film until the last five minutes.

Setsuko Hara and the changing face of Japanese womanhood

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Film: Maihime, Naruse dir, 1951

Perhaps the most "literate" film I've yet seen by Naruse.  I'm sure the book (based on the novel by future Nobel Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata) must be better.  His follow-up film (Meshi) explores some of the same themes and uses some of the same actors, at least one in an identical role (the male love interest waiting patiently for the female lead).

This line came from out of the blue, wasn't developed further,and doesn't much connect with anything in Naruse's previous work.

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