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Flowing

Nagareru (Flowing)

1956

Mikio Naruse

Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine, Sumiko Kurishima ...

7.4

227

Drama The narrative, as adapted from a book by Kodo Aya, concerns Rika (Kinuyo Tanaka), a widow whose dire financial circumstances force her to take a housemaid assignment in a failing Tokyo geisha house.

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The film contains no 'big' scenes, no villains, no heroines. It moves effortlessly from one small encounter (...) to the next to create an immensely moving portrait of anti-heroic endurance."	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times	"It is Naruse's quiet, understated compassion and surgically precise craft that make 'Flowing' a masterpiece."	POS
United States	Keith Uhlich Slant	"In its own way, 'Flowing' is an end-of-days film, a silent apocalypse (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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