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MESHI is an uncomplicated narrative told with insightful detail and subtlety from the point of view of the unhappy wife, Michiyo, disappointed by her drab existence and the boorish indifference of her husband, Hatsunosuke, whose attentions are easily distracted by the arrival of his niece. As in the other films discussed here, Naruse portrays life in post-war Japan in an almost documentary fashion, particularly in his location sequences in claustrophobic alleys and near waterways. One of the commentators mentions how it was Fassbinder twenty years later whose dissection of middle-class life in the post-war society in Europe is very much a reminder of Naruse's concerns. (Viennale)
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Setsuko Hara
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Early Summer (1951)
Late Autumn (1960)
Akiko Kazami
Japan
Best movies:
Red Beard (1965)
A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Repast (1951)
Haruko Sugimura
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Early Summer (1951)
Red Beard (1965)
Haruo Tanaka
Japan
Best movies:
To Live (1952)
Early Spring (1956)
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956)
Sō Yamamura
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Revenge (1963)
Chieko Nakakita
Best movies:
Asu o tsukuru hitobito (1946)
Early Spring (1956)
The Rickshaw Man (1958)
Keiju Kobayashi
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Vengeance for Sale (2001)
Sanjuro (1962)
進藤英太郎
Japan
Best movies:
Revenge (1964)
Legend of Bailiff Sansho (1954)
Drunken Angel (1948)
浦辺粂子
Japan
Best movies:
To Live (1952)
Early Spring (1956)
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Early Summer (1951)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)