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william d @acsdoug 09/23/2022 For a minute there I thought there was going to be a happy ending. Then I remembered, "Wait, this is Naruse . . . " See more 07/10/2012 This one's real real good! See more 04/15/2012 this is the finest melodrama i have ever seen. in a side note: i don't know why so many synopses refer to reiko's husband as a suicide when he was clearly killed in the war. anyway, the height of naruse and takemine's work, along with 'floating clouds' See more 10/22/2010 Mikio Naruse really deserves an Eclipse series. See more 06/08/2010 A melodrama of forbidden love from Mikio Naruse. Starting mundanely in a small shop being run out of business by a viciously competitive supermarket, the plot takes a hook turn from post-war family drama into more dangerous terrain. Stock characters take on new emotional dimensions and embark on a long (train) journey into the unknown, where anything might be possible if only society's shackles could be loosened. See more 08/20/2009 after a long hiatus not watching any single film of Mikio Naruse, last nite was a great moment. He is easily one of my favorite director. And Hideko Takamine, his muse is one of my favorite actress. Naruse films are considered to be in the crowd of Shomin-Geki (pictures about everydays live), a style if not a genre, that he shares with his fellow country man Yasujiro Ozu, also one of my fave director. Takamine played as woman named Reiko whose husband was taken to the war and was killed shortly after their marriage, lives and devotes rest of her life as a widow serving her parent-in-law. Re-marriage has never crossed her mind. Well, it seems like a theme from Ozu's Noriko Trilogy, but it's not Naruse if he doesn't take controversial turn in his picture. The small shop she's taken care of, has been "losing" the competition with the new big supermarket in the town. Her sister-in-law starts questioning whether she's still needed in the family or not, while her brother-in-law confesses loving her. What I love about Naruse's works are the dialogue which builds the entire story. The characters are well-built, believeable, while living through their miseries. It;s a tragic melodrama about love story which didn 't end well, but engaging through the duration. See more Read all reviews

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