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      Lightning (Inazuma)

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      william d I didn't find the story to be particularly interesting. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Family burdens laid thick, then lightened--A lovely film!! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member As a heightened melodramatic plot takes place around her, Hideko Takamine is the rather still, but clearly discontented, center of the picture. She has three half-siblings all from different fathers and none of them have adapted well to post-war Japan, either unable or unwilling to function or too shrewd and manipulative for their own good. Takamine seems to find a separate peace, but Naruse hints that this might not actually be allowable. As in his other films, it seems possible to lose oneself in the world and relationships created here. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't know about this movie; in hindsight I think it was good, but at the time I remember disliking it. That was because it had SO MANY CHARACTERS!!! Too many in fact, and I couldn't figure them all out! Which may have been why I didn't like this. Also, I don't know if I like Hideko Takamine... I can't read her... unlike Hara! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Keith Uhlich Slant Magazine Takamine is especially terrific, her perpetually wide-eyed, comically exasperated performance at once suggesting Kiyoko's trappings of the body and the wanderings of her mind. Rated: 3.5/4 Feb 14, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Mikio Naruse