A bitter look back at responsibility for the war, a new interpretation of democracy as popular justice instead of license, and encouragement for women to assert themselves. A widow with three sons and an outspoken daughter relies on her militarist brother-in-law to manage the family during the war. The oldest son is jailed for pacifist thoughts, and the uncle breaks his niece’s engagement as a result. The two younger sons are drafted and both die, and by the end of the war the widow realizes that her brother-in-law’s counsel has all been self-aggrandizement. She throws him out and joyfully receives her newly released pacifist son as morning dawns for the liberal family.

Winner of Kinema Jumpo #1 for the year 1946.

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A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.

Keisuke Kinoshita - 1976 - Love and Parting in Sri Lanka (1080p).mkv

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Criterion’s title for this film is “You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum.”

From the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s “Films of Keisuke Kinoshita” program notes:

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Masao (Ozu regular Chishu Ryu) returns to his hometown after a successful career in business; the visit prompt memories of the time right before he left to study, when as a young man he fell in love with Tamiko, a beautiful, high-spirited young woman who also loved him but whom he was forbidden to marry as his family—and especially his mother—already had plans for him. Kinoshita brilliantly captures the flush of young love, played out against stunning landscapes—a love made all the more poignant as we know it will remain unrequited. Film scholar Donald Richie called it “one of the most nostalgically beautiful of Kinoshita’s films.”

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A young woman fends off a series of aggressive marriage proposals from a man who committed atrocities during World War II.

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Using a sort of reverse aesthetic structure to that of Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse, prolific and wildly diverse Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita opens his 1963 film A Legend or Was It? in the present, in spectacular color, within an almost archetypically idyll mountain village. He sets us amongst farmers who are pointedly kind, generous, and compassionate towards their neighbors. One man stops what he’s doing to mourn another’s dead horse; one man comments that the weather is too hot, to which his friend replies that they should be thankful, for they’d been fearing a cold front; two women tease each other kindly; a group helps pull a truck out of a rut. This is the absolute ideal of communal living. And then the narration informs us that things weren’t always this way, that less than twenty years ago, a “nightmare” had taken place, one that the farmers have tried desperately to put behind them. – from CriterionCast.

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Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru’s elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro’s elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi.

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Subtitles:English

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Nick Wrigley, Masters of Cinema wrote:
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother’s despair becomes interminable.

Kinoshita is widely regarded as having more breadth as a director than any other in Japan. Just comparing this film with the other Panorama Kinoshita DVD release TWENTY-FOUR EYES (made the following year in 1954) is quite astonishing. Every film for him – 42 in 23 years – was a chance to experiment. He pushed long takes to the limit with deep focus long shots; he tried fast cutting action; he approached *all* genres and was wildly successful at almost everything he tried his hand at, yet he remained modestly unimpressed with his jack-of-all-trades approach describing it as “half-baked”. Masaki Kobayashi (a pupil of Kinoshita) believed that Kinoshita’s genius lay precisely in his wide-ranging breadth and fearlessness. Indeed, according to Audie Bock’s marvellous book “JAPANESE FILM DIRECTORS” (from which the DVD text extras liberally quote) Kinoshita’s films were more liked in Japan and more successful than both Kurosawa and Mizoguchi at the time of release.

Within 15 minutes it becomes apparent that this is a major film by a major filmmaker. The way the film unfolds, interspersed with genuine newsreel footage to underline the poverty and atmosphere of postwar Japan, is tremendously effective and as brilliantly fresh today as I expect it was when it was made. Throughout the film, the mother (Yuko Mochizuki) occasionally has flashbacks which are presented without sound. This stark, simple device – one which is rarely used in sound cinema – concentrates all the viewer’s attention on the flashbacks’ significance and reinforces her feelings in a particularly unique way. I don’t want to give much away about the plot – suffice to say I was glued to this throughout. [Lovely to see Ozu regular Keiji Sada in a small part as a down-on-his-luck guitarist (Sada unfortunately died in a car accident in 1964 aged 38)]. Rarely written about, this film is astonishing, and deserves a place in every cineaste’s collection.

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Sentimental egalitarianism in a love story that crosses class barriers. A lower-class entrepreneur on his way up is proposed a match wth a lovely girl of an aristocratic family. He soon learns her household is bankrupt and hoping he will bail them out, and he feels he has none of the refined culture this girl enjoys. But in the end the girl herself realizes she is really in love with this boorish but charmingly frank and devoted young man…

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The post Keisuke Kinoshita – Ojôsan kanpai AKA Here’s to the Young Lady AKA Here’s to the Girls (1949) first appeared on Cinema of the World.