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Illegal immigrant, neglect, chastisement, air guns, alcohol, paper planes, apartments. The battlefield is also right beside us in Japan. With a deep gaze and transparent kindness, it depicts the fleeting sympathy of a boy and a girl who are trying to survive there.
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A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist restrictions of the time, perhaps because it is also his most direct engagement with the culture of war. When a newsreel comes to Kameoka featuring a local man named Yoichi, it causes some excitement in the community and, of course, in Yoichi's own family. First of all his mother makes the newsreel (Nippon News, no. 14), which begins with the same marching music that opens his own film, followed by a curious baby judging context in Los Angeles featuring two hundred Japanese babies. Released in January 1941, almost a year before the pacific war begins, this “found footage” is indicative of Japanese imperialist ambitions beyond Asia long before Pearl Harbor.
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9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.
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A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of violence, is reduced to apathy or victimhood.
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В семье господина Исимуры 11 человек – он сам, его жена, пять сыновей, две маленькие дочки и двое престарелых родителей. Отец и трое старших сыновей работают на фабрике. Несмотря на это, семья еле сводит концы с концами. Никто из братьев не может позволить себе не работать. Кризис наступает, когда самый старший брат Кийти заявляет о своем желании оставить фабрику и поступить в техническое училище.
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История похищения девушки по имени Окума — наследницы некогда преуспевающего торгового дома, со временем разорившегося и превратившегося в мелкий ломбард.
