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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Bakushu (Early summer) 1951 - Post-war concerns with modernity, tradition and the freedom of women


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IMDB rating: 8,0


Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Main Cast: Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake


"Writer/director Yasujiro Ozu combines two of his favorite themes - the culture clashes in modern Japan and the emergence of the independent Japanese woman - in Early Summer (Bakushu). Setsuko Hara plays a young woman of the post-war era who is promised in an arranged marriage. But too much has happened in the world and in the girl's own life to allow her to agree to this union without protest.
Character types are as easily recognizable in Japan as in any country, and this commonality enhances the universal appeal of this austere film.
Though composed with Ozu's customary low, fixed camera and straight cuts, Early Summer is stylistically tied to his earlier work, which features a more mobile camera than his later films: fluidly evocative tracking shots become scene transitions, and a perpendicular crane shot following Noriko and her sister-in-law as they walk through dunes equates them visually as the world literally turns." - www.allmovie.com

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