Tag: Naruse
Two Mikio Naruse films create a valley of tears
To Western viewers, Japanese cinema offers a still largely unexplored history, of which we have not finished going back. Proof of this is two late and unreleased films by Mikio…
“The Mother”, by Mikio Naruse, masterpiece of a seismograph of the soul
Masako Takahara (Kinuyo Tanaka) and her husband Ryosuke (Masao Mishima) in “The Mother” (1952), by Mikio Naruse. ACACIAS Okaasan (“Mother” or “mother”) is this charming ritornello that we hear coming…