A beautiful girl, Yōko, gets lost one night during an air raid and is taken in by an orphanage. Eventually, she is reunited with her own family and goes home to live with them. But there, an unexpected fate awaits her as she is subjected to horrific brutality from these people who are tortured by a past mistake.
영화 속 노래의 후렴구이기도 한 ‘에에쟈나이카’는 새로운 사회적 분위기가 만들어지던 에도 말기에 발생한 대중적 운동, 또는 현상을 폭넓게 지칭하는 말이다. 격변의 에도 말기, 한 가난한 농부가 미국에서 일본으로 돌아온다. 겨우 고향으로 돌아왔지만 그는 다시 한 번 힘든 시기를 보내야 한다. 당시 일본 사회의 급격한 변화를 여러 인물과 사건을 통해 스케치하듯 그린 작품.
(2017년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 이마무라 쇼헤이 회고전)
Set against the background of a giant newspaper company. A girl reporter on the staff of the newspaper witnesses the accidental killing of one of the top executives, whose wife is having an affair with the head of the company.
Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two star-crossed lovers--Hideo (Yukio Hashi), an aspiring photographer from Japan, and Reiko (Jun Mayuzumi), a beautiful Sansei Cherry Blossom contestant from Hawaii--who are drawn together by destiny, yet appear to be fated to be apart. Will the sun set on their young love, or will it be the dawn of a new relationship?
