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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What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts. Even her best friends, Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, who were her fellow Geisha, are now indebted to her. For all of them, the glamor of their young lives has passed; Tomi and Tamae have children, but their children have disappointed them. Kin has two former lovers who still pursue her; one she wants to see, and the other she doesn’t. But even the one she remembers fondly, when he shows up, proves to be a disappointment.

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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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Not much info on this film out there, but here is a nice little rundown by Keiko McDonald from her book, From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films:

“Uguisu (The Nightingale) drew on a story of the same title published that year by Einosuke Ito. Here the frame of reference is a subgenre that called itself agrarian literature. Ito’s tale is an episodic account of peasants responding to poverty and depravation with cunning, simplicity, and often woeful ignorance.

Toyoda gave Ito’s episodic structure the benefit of methods Edmund Goulding used so beautifully in his 1932 classic, Grand Hotel. The Goulding-Garbo magic spell was woven within the confines of a single hotel, with events spanning just two days. The various episodes focused on the comings and goings of people whose victories and defeats created a microcosm of the world at large.

The setting of The Nightingale is worlds away from any grand hotel. This story plays out in a rural police station in northern Honshu. Poor peasants come and go, a class of petty criminal created by the need to survive times of cruel deprivation.

The film was shot at record speed, in eleven days. Toyoda had no Garbo or Barrymore to work with, only a supporting cast borrowed from the shingeki (New Drama) stage. Haste and casting together give this film the look of a sketchy stage drama. Even so, it offers a fascinating glimpse of rural hardship as seen by writer, director, and actors themselves caught up in the toils of that difficult time.”

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Tamiko is a divorced mother with a seriously ill son, struggling to save him and give both a sense of their existence. She lives with her mother and brother, but will marry a man older than her. The dramatic shadow of Hiroshima bombs is always hovering over the fate of the characters.

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“Haru no mezame” was Naruse’s third full-lenth post-war film — and a delightful surprise. It turns out to be a slice of life film, centered around a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl — played by 16 year old Yoshiko Kuga (future star in Portrait of Madame Yuki, Banka, Equinox Flower, Good Morning) — still a tiny bit plumpish — and not full grown. Almost no plot to speak of — just normal events of school and home life and hanging around with friends.
She gets grounded after one unauthorized coed outing (which a friend has unwisely photographed), she gets upset when one male acquaintance kisses her without approval, and gets sad when the boy she likes best is sent to a better school in Tokyo by his parents. A family maid gets pregnant (without benefit of marriage). This is as relaxed and good-natured a film as Naruse ever made. (He out-Shimizus Shimizu here — in this respect).

Interestingly, virtually none of Kuga’s female classmates here seem to have gone on to a career in films (despite offering nice, natural performances). We also see (in supporting roles) a surprisingly young looking (and pretty) Haruko Sugimura as Kuga’s mother and a slightly youngish Takashi Shimura (who looks much the same as we know him from Kurosawa’s films).

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The success of The River Fuefuki encouraged Kinoshita to return to period filmmaking once again with this “epic” chamber drama about a geisha mother and her daughter. Based on the popular novel by Ariyoshi Sawako, the story begins as Ikuyo (Nobuko Otowa) is forced into prostitution from poverty; she soon becomes known as a woman who will agree to her clients’ basest desires. Although shielded from her mother’s profession, her daughter Tomoko (Mariko Okada) is deeply ashamed by her mother’s degradation—while still accepting her financial support. But when Mariko attracts the attention of a boy from a well-to-do family, the danger arises that he might discover Mariko’s secret. Kinoshita ventures into Mizoguchi territory here, with a decided difference: he never shies away from showing the harshness of a prostitute’s life. The two leads work beautifully together, capturing the closeness that still exists even in the most troubled relationship between a mother and her daughter.

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