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Vesna and Samo fall in love. Actually, Vesna doesn’t know that Samo started to court her just in order to get final exams exercises from her father, a professor. When Vesna finds that out she doesn’t want to have anything with him anymore. But she soon changes her mind…Read More »
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矢野黎子はアルバイト学生。顔の広い級友の紹介で、ブルジョワの藤堂家の次女・マリ子の家庭教師になった。藤堂家の長女・友絵は典型的なブルジョア令嬢で、別荘のデザインをしてもらっている設計技師・叶冬彦を秘かに愛していた。黎子にとって藤堂家の生活はすべてあまりにもかけ離れていたが、明るく知的な冬彦との出会いは、いつしか黎子の境遇を通り越して、好意以上のものを感じさせていたのだった。一方、冬彦も清楚で美しい黎子を愛し始めていた。二人の仲は急速に進展していくが、黎子の心は複雑だった。それは黎子には赤線で働く姉・銀子がいたからだった……。Read More »
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In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko’s wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confronts the professor about his extramarital affair, and Tsuruko, an inevitable witness to the confrontation, leaves the professor the following morning. Over the next decade, whenever he visits the mountain cabin every autumn equinox, the memory of Tsuruko will forever haunt Kazuhiko…Read More »
Another early Masumura with Wakao Ayako, based on the novel by Blue Sky Maiden’s (青空娘) Genji Keita. This time we have Wakao as the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, whose two elder sisters have married the two elder sons of the Mihara family. While Kawaguchi Hiroshi plays the third, unmarried son… so you can imagine the ensuing events. Maybe not as much fun as Ichikawa Kon’s Goodbye, Hello (あなたと私の合言葉 さようなら、今日は), also made at Daiei around the same time with the same leads and a similar story, but Masumura can do no wrong either.Read More »
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At the publishing company “Fujin Shunju,” union executives Date, Kuroki, Imoto, and others were having a heated argument with President Ogawa over the raise of employees’ wages. Kuroki returns to his apartment and receives a call from the company president. Kuroki replied, “I have gone on an indefinite strike.” He used his position as vice chairman to sell information to the company. The president had promised him an important position in the future. That night, Kuroki met Yoshishige at a bar. The two were close friends who were involved in left-wing movements during their student days. There was also a physical relationship. Read More »
In a port area of France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies. From the initial peccadillo to the final drama, each action leads to a more violent reaction of vengeance, each treated with the excess and cruelty that he himself displayed.Read More »
In a remote region of post-independence India, the love of a blind British woman pricks the conscience of an arms dealer.Read More »
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In the sequel to Children of the Beehive, a journalist arrives in the secluded foothills of Shimizu’s cherished Izu in search of a hidden commune to ask, “What happened to the children of the Beehive?” Three years have passed and her question situates itself not only in the realm of Shimizu’s craft, but that of reality: What became of the war orphans Shimizu raised? Rewriting the past, Shimizu even renders one of the original’s most heartbreaking sequences into a work of fiction. Invoking meta-narrative elements, Shimizu reshapes the orphans’ narrative, which is quite well-known to visitors of the commune thanks to the popularity of the first Beehive film. A fascinating work of docudrama that treads between the realm of fact and fiction, Children of the Beehive: What Happened Next breathes the fresh air of Shimizu’s loose and reflexive approach, anticipating the works of Kiarostami.Read More »
