Ani imôto (Older Brother, Younger Sister)

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william d @acsdoug 03/14/2022 There were some good dramatic bits at the end, but mostly this movie kind of drags. It didn't do much for me. See more 12/17/2012 Another striking family melodrama from the golden age of Japanese cinema by Mikio Naruse. Not one of his established classics, but still a cut above. Here Machiko Kyo plays a young woman who falls pregnant out of wedlock, with the father nowhere to be seen. The baby is stillborn and Kyo becomes a woman of low reputation. This has strong effects on her younger sister, a good girl who wishes to be similarly independent, and her older brother, a moralistic roughneck played strikingly out-of-character by Masayuki Mori. No real plot to speak of, but Naruse establishes the rural setting with beautiful cutaway shots, develops his characters efficiently, and lets them act. See more Read all reviews

Ani imôto (Older Brother, Younger Sister)

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