Keisuke Kinoshita – Shito no densetsu AKA A Legend or Was It? (1963)

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

Quote:
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.

A Legend or Was It (1963) 720p WEB-DL.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 23mn
Size: 	1.85 GiB
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Resolution: 	1280x720 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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https://nitro.download/view/E3B5D9FD254D3A2/A_Legend_or_Was_It_(1963)_720p_WEB-DL.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (hard-subbed)