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Bonchi

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Original title

Bonchi

Year

1960

Running time

105 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Kon Ichikawa

Screenwriter

Kon Ichikawa, Natto Wada. Novel: Toyoko Yamasaki

Cast

Music

Yasushi Akutagawa

Cinematography

Kazuo Miyagawa

Producer

Daiei Kyoto, Daiei Eiga

Genre

Drama | Family Relationships

Synopsis

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care. The film presages Ichikawa's The Makioka Sisters in its World War II nostalgia and visual sophistication.

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Bonchi

1960

Kon Ichikawa