This movie is filled with a society of male privilege and women who feel helpless. It does make me want to sit a couple of these people down and give them a serious talking to. I'd institute strict prohibition against ever again speaking the words, "... but I can't help it." Naruse does a good job of showing the effect these societal assumptions have on individual lives.
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Slant Magazine gives it 3 1/2 out of 4 stars. Rotten Tomatoes has an audience rating of 88%.
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I like the way the director captured her face in close-up, first pensive, then curious. It's too bad these societal mores are so ingrained in people and how they carry it from generation to generation.
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I've become quite a fan of Japanese films, at least the older ones. I haven't seen more modern ones, I guess because they're not available online like the older ones sometimes are. We are so blind to our own assumptions, aren't we.
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