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Naruse - Volume One on DVD

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Average rating: (77%)
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Starring: Ken Uehara | Setsuko Hara | Yukiko Shimaza | Yoko Sugi | Akiko Kazami
Director: Mikio Naruse
Run time: 275 mins
Certificate: PG
User collections: 50 auteurs, 50 great films
Genres: World Cinema
Languages: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Released: 04/12/2006

Brief synopsis of Naruse - Volume One

Presented here in a lavish box set, along with an accompanying book, the Masters Of Cinema series presents three of Mikio Naruse's finest films

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Naruse - Repast
Repast (1951) depicts the lives of common people, in this instance to capture the pungent atmosphere of fading... 		Sign up
Naruse - Sound Of The Mountain
Sound Of The Mountain is one of Naruse's best-known and most respected films, typifying his preferred genre of... 		Sign up
Naruse - Flowing
Flowing, directed in 1956 (the year that prostitution was outlawed in Japan), explores the inner workings of a... 		Sign up

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Rated - 4 starsSound of the Mountain.

Chester Dent from London, England , 04/06/2007

Sound of the Mountain is a perfect representation of the shomin-geki film (films concerning the lifes of ordinary people) which focuses on the tender relationship between the wife of a philandering husband and her father-in-law - excellent performances from Ozu regular and 'Greta Garbo of Japan' Setsuko Hara and the prolific So Yamamura. It's an extremely contemplative and measured film with restrained emotion typical of Japanese society of the time. There is an underlying sorrow and quiet pessimism throughout which erupts in the superb frank and revelatory climax.

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Rated - 3 starsL'Atalante japanese style

itstinks , 25/06/2007

Repast shows your standard Japanese marriage, hard workiung husband who takes his wifes duties for granted and a wife spending all day on the upkeep of the house on a low budget. A neice visiting from Tokyo causes some friction (by polite Japanese standards) and the wife decides to go off to Tokyo which she misses. Will she stary from her husband, will he cope without her ? Its pretty obvious what will happen but its still done in a simple elegant style to keep you watching. Another of the films as done by Ozu where the directors seem to have been ordered to show the sort of behaviour that is expected of the population. Will try another one but this was far from essential viewing.

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