The House of Wooden Blocks
- Original title
- Tsumiki no hako
- Year
- 1968
- Running time
- 84 min.
- Country
- Japan
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Ayako Wakao
- Ken Ogata
- Kayo Matsuo
- Eiko Azusa
- Yoko Namikawa
- Yoshiro Uchida
- Michiko Araki
- Asao Uchida
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- Masumura's 40th film, for which he collaborated on the script, shows plot irrationality perhaps due to the newspaper serial original, perhaps to the adolescent behavior he portrays. The extremes of self-sacrifice in some of the characters such as Hisayo and Sugiura contrast too sharply with the animal brutality of Sasabayashi and Namie, and the result is more caricature than realism. The harsh selfishness of Ichiro¯ and the abrupt techniques used to present his interior thoughts (double exposure of a naked Yuri as he undresses her with his eyes) prevent him in the end from winning audience sympathy. Part of a late sixties trend toward adolescent sexuality subject matter.
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