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Tsuki wa noborinu

The Moon Has Risen
Two women are sitting in a room. One in the foreground at a low table, the other in the background.
© 1955 Nikkatsu

Sun 10.07.
20:00

  • 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 Kalender

It’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)

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media