Unjustly little known in our country, Cinemateca Argentina has been presenting since yesterday at the Sala Lugones a valuable cycle of 16 of his feature films corresponding to different stages of his career.
Women tired of the domestic routine and the mediocrity of their husbands, wives faced with the meanness of their in-laws, widows determined to get ahead with their children and their unthinkable jobs, are common figures in the cinema of Mikio Narusea notable scholar of the female soul and subtle master of staging and fluid narration similar to the flow of life itself.
It has less fame than Mizoguchi either Yasujiro Ozubut he is at the same level. He made films from 1930, when he was 25 years old, until 1967, he made nearly 90 works depicting the society of his country throughout various stages, he left some disciples and, along with his own, the name of two valuable women: the actress Hideko Takamine and the writer Fumiko Hayashi.He is little known here.
Yesterday Sala Lugones began a cycle of 16 films Naruseincluding some of the most famous ones. They are repeated several times at different times, and are provided, in a new 35 mm print, The Japan Foundation through the Japanese Embassy and its Cultural and Information Center, in process where the Argentine Cinematheque, a private entity, participates. That is to say, straight from Tokyo to Corrientes Street.
The titles are, in chronological order, “Wife, be like a rose” (1935, ironic phrase that weighs on a young girl), “Hideko, the bus conductor” (1941, in the middle of the war, in this case trying to give a smile), “Married life” (1951, a stockbroker and his wife), “The lightning” (1952, a young woman walks away from family arguments), and “Man and wife” (1953, about to separate).
They will also be seen “Late Chrysanthemums” (1954, a former geisha becomes a moneylender). “The voice of the mountain” (1954, the father-in-law takes pity on the daughter-in-law who feels ignored by her husband), “Floating Clouds” (1955, a woman searches for her wartime lover, but finds him dominated by his wife), “Sudden rain” (1956, marriage in crisis), “Adrift” (1956, a recent widow starts cleaning a geisha house), “An indomitable woman” (1957, the adopted daughter rejects a marriage of convenience) and “The arrival of autumn” (1960, a widow and her son go to live with relatives)
Complete the cycle “Children, wives and a mother” (1960, the family does not know what to do with the mother and a widowed daughter), “When a woman climbs the stairs” (1960, in memory of her husband, a widow avoids the clients who offer themselves to her), “His lonely path” (1962, biopic of the writer Fumiko Hayashi) and “Scattered clouds” (1967, a pregnant young woman’s husband dies in an accident, and the person responsible could offer her love, not just apologies.) This was her last film.
Several of this selection are adaptations of novels by Fumiko Hayashiwhom Mikio Naruse considered her soul mate, to the point of dedicating a biopic to her in her honor. And she also acts in several Hideko Takaminea ductile actress, capable of drama as well as comedy. In her memoir, she wrote a beautiful portrait of Naruse and his world:
“Naruse was a shy person and did not like to be noticed. He had a gaze that was both warm and penetrating. He always paid attention to what ordinary people thought and felt. He looked for material for his films in the joys and sorrows of ordinary people. He always tried to depict the good and bad moments of ordinary lives. I acted in 17 of his films. In them the exteriors were full of people and the houses were cheap buildings. The characters were almost unglamorous, they ate ramen and ochazuke and sometimes a band of sandwich men appeared. That was his world.”, says the actress.
Source: Ambito
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