Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Burmese Harp, The (Biruma no tategoto) (1956)
- Dir. Kon Ichikawa
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni - Another muted anti–war elegy conceived during Japan’s post–WWII recovery, this tells the journey of a Japanese private, who upon…
Crazed Fruit (1956)- Dir. Ko Nakahira
Feat. Yujiro Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara - Two hedonistic brothers chase the skirt of a voracious young temptress in this scorching, jazz–infused statement on reckless youth. A seminal…
Flowing (Nagareru ) (1956)- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Isuzu Yamada - Dir. Naruse’s compassionate portrait of the fading post–war geisha trade. Considered one of the director's best among his many films to…
Kanal (1956)- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar - The darkest chapter of dir. Wadja's WWII 'Trilogy', is an unremitting portrayal of the last gasps of the 1944 Warsaw uprising. With desperate…
Roof, The (Tetto, Il) (1956)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi - Moving (and until recently, exceptionally hard to find) neo–realist drama that latches onto the hard times of a newly married couple who…
Sissi - The Young Empress (1956)- Dir. Ernst Marischka
Feat. Romy Schneider - Royal life is not quite the bed of roses for Princess Sissi, now married to her beloved Franz but under the constant gaze of her meddling…
Apu Trilogy, The (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Apur Sansar) (1955-1959)
- Dir. Satyajit Ray
- Ray’s trilogy follows one indelible character, a free–spirited child in rural poverty who matures into an adolescent urban student and,…
Dreams (Kvinnodröm; Journey Into Autumn) (1955)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand - Early, flawed Bergman microscope on relationships focuses on two women – a photographer and her model on a fashion shoot – as they…
French Can Can (French Cancan, Only the French Can) (1955)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Michel Piccoli, Dora Doll… - Jean Renoir returned to France after 15 years absence to make this vibrant tribute to the Parisian world of his father, the Impressionist painter…
I Live in Fear (Ikimono no Kiroku) (1955)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura - Convinced a nuclear holocaust is imminent, an elderly industrialist (Mifune) decides to uproot his reluctant family (even his mistresses!) from Tokyo…
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