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Midareru

1964

Mikio Naruse

Hideko Takamine, Yûzô Kayama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mie Hama ...

8.0

889

Drama 19 year old girl loses husband in war. Bombing destroys his family's shop and the widow stays to rebuild it as the rest of the family flee and runs it for 18 years out of love for her dead husband and his mother. The film starts after 18 years when a new supermarket threatens to put them out of business. The sisters conspire to turn the shop into a supermarket and get rid of their brother's widow. Meanwhile, the surviving younger ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Keith Uhlich Slant	"One of Naruse’s great talents is in making the mundane mysterious (...) Naruse’s camera, under the guiding eye of cinematographer Jun Yasumoto, never blinks, maintaining a harsh, voyeuristic presence (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Masterpiece (...) Its psychological complexity is bottomless"	POS
United States	G. Allen Johnson SFGATE	"An ode to Takamine (...) It shows Naruse at war with the '60s, even as he embraces a New Wave approach."	POS

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