Sat 02.07.
19:00
Director
Kinuyo Tanaka
Japan / 1955
102 min.
/ DCP
/ Original version with English subtitles
with
With Hisako Yamane, Yôko Sugi, Mie Kitahara, Chishu Ryu
Original language
Japanese
Cinema
Arsenal 1
zu den Ticketszu dem KalenderIt’s late autumn in Nara, a city of many temples that used to be capital of Japan. Widower Mokichi (Chishu Ryu) lives right by a large temple complex together with his three daughters, all of whom marriageable age: widow Chizuru (Hisako Yamane), the middle daughter Ayako, who initially rejects any thoughts of wedlock, and the high-spirited youngest daughter Setsuko (Mie Kitahara). Setsuko has decided to set up Ayako with a shy electrical engineer, which creates some of this comedy’s most amusing scenes. As the set-up already suggests, the film is based on a script by Yasujiro Ozu, to whom Tanaka pays tribute with the low-angle “tatami” shots used at the beginning of the film. (mg)