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Dancing Girl

7.2

54

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Original title

Maihime (Dancing Girl)

Year

1951

Running time

85 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Mikio Naruse

Screenwriter

Kaneto Shindô. Novel: Yasunari Kawabata

Cast

Music

Ichiro Saitô

Cinematography

Asakazu Nakai (B&W)

Producer

Toho

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

Dancing Girl is an important transitional film, as Naruse deploys some of the flamboyant melodramatic devices that he used in the 1930s in the context of a story that is very much a postwar narrative. Elaborate, distinctive camera movements at moments of high dramatic tension tend to displace acting technique in the representation of psychological states. Used only in conjunction with the two main women characters, Namiko (Takamine Mieko) and her daughter Shinako (Okada Mariko), the camera movements now seem to detract from the emotional weight of the drama.

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Dancing Girl

1951

Mikio Naruse

7.2

(54)