Repast
Dir: Naruse Mikio
Japan, 1951, 97minmins
Cast: Hara Setsuko, Uehara Ken, Shimazaki Yukiko
In his first attempt to adapt Hayashi Fumiko’s novel, Naruse’s Repast stars the luminous Hara Setsuko as a housewife to a salaryman husband in Osaka. Five years of marriage has long since dulled: domestic duties have become mechanical and her husband uninspiring. The arrival of her spirited niece prompts a search for the life she once knew in Tokyo. Naruse’s lens captures a livelier Hara, whose warm smiles hide a disappointment at the mundane, and a longing for liberation. Contrasting with her saintly presence in Ozu’s films, Repast offers a complex Hara that is not without troubles and dissatisfaction, articulated through her nuanced performance.
#2 in 1951 Kinema Junpo’s Top 10
1952 Blue Ribbon Award, Best Film & Best Actress
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
2016-07-30 (Sat)
17:152016-10-12 (Wed)
19:30
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