Naruse - Volume One - 3-DVD Set ( Meshi / Yama no oto / Nagareru ) ( Repast / Sound of the Mountain / Flowing )

Naruse - Volume One - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Meshi / Yama no oto / Nagareru
Alternate Title: Repast / Sound of the Mountain / Flowing
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
275 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1951 - 1956 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Mikio Naruse

Written By:
Fumiko Hayashi
Yasunari Kawabata
Yôko Mizuki
Toshirô Ide
Aya Koda

Actors:
Ken Uehara ..... Hatsunosuke Okamoto
Setsuko Hara ..... Michiyo Okamoto
Yukiko Shimazaki ..... Satoko Okamoto
Yôko Sugi ..... Mitsuko Murata, Michiyo's sister-in-law
Akiko Kazami ..... Seiko Tomiyasu
Haruko Sugimura ..... Matsu Murata, Michiyo's mother
Ranko Hanai ..... Koyoshi Dohya
Kan Nihonyanagi ..... Kazuo Takenaka
Keiju Kobayashi ..... Shinzo Murata, Michiyo's brother
Akira Oizumi ..... Keiko Yamakita
Ichirô Shimizu
Haruo Tanaka
Sô Yamamura
Chieko Nakakita
Sayuri Tanima
Setsuko Hara ..... Ogata Kikuko
Sô Yamamura ..... Ogata Shingo
Ken Uehara ..... Otto, Shuuichi
Yôko Sugi ..... Tanizaki Hideko
Teruko Nagaoka ..... Tsuma, Yasuko
Yatsuko Tanami ..... Ikeda
Chieko Nakakita ..... Aihara Fusako
Rieko Sumi ..... Kinuko
Hisao Toake ..... Shingo no yuujin
Machiko Kitagawa
Fumiko Saito
Tsuruko Mano
Nobuo Kaneko
Kinuyo Tanaka ..... Rika Yamanaka /
Oharu ..... Otsuta
Isuzu Yamada ..... Katsuyo, Otsuta's daughter
Hideko Takamine ..... Nanako
Mariko Okada ..... Someka
Haruko Sugimura ..... Ohama
Sumiko Kurishima ..... Yoneko, Otsuta's sister
Chieko Nakakita ..... Otoyo, Otsuta's sister
Natsuko Kahara ..... Namie's uncle
Seiji Miyaguchi ..... Yoneko's ex
Daisuke Katô
Nobuo Nakamura
Kumeko Otowa
Yoshie Minami
Kumeko Onba
Kichijiro Ueda

Synopsis:

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

Repast (1951) depicts the lives of common people, in this instance to capture the pungent atmosphere of fading love. Set shortly after World War II, and concerning a struggling marriage between salaryman Hatsunosuke (Ken Uehara) and his wife Michiyo (Setsuko Hara), it focuses on the emotional crisis of the bored housewife. The repetitive tedium of her domestic life is brought into focus by a visit from Hatsunosuke's niece, Satoko (Yukiko Shimazaki ) on whom Hatsunosuke lavishes much attention.

Adapted from a novel by Kawabata Yasunari, the first Japanese author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sound Of The Mountain (1954) is one of Naruse's best-known and most respected films, typifying his preferred genre of shomin-geki (films about the daily lives of ordinary people). Set in the ancient seaside town of Kamakura, Kawabata's home, the film depicts the increasingly close relationship between a childless young woman, Kikuko (Setsuko Hara), and her father-in-law, Shingo (So Yamamura), to whom she turns as her own marriage, to the neglectful and philandering Shuichi (Ken Uehara), disintegrates. The more Shuichi destroys his marriage, the closer Shingo and Kikuko become.

The third film, Flowing, directed in 1956 (the year that prostitution was outlawed in Japan), explores the inner workings of a changing world, as traditional geishas faced the impending decline of their hidden way of life and the looming spectre of prostitution. It depicts the story of a widow, Rika (Kinuyo Tanaka), who is forced to work for a living and becomes a maid in a struggling Tokyo geisha house, where Tsutayakko (Isuzu Yamada ), its proud mistress, tries to save the house from becoming either a restaurant or a brothel. It is through Rika, a surrogate for the viewer, that we are introduced to the various geishas, who drink and fight, worry over the lack of clients, and attempt to stave off imminent extinction.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 04 April, 2009.

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