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Subgenre Sampler
Twenty-Four Eyes (24 Eyes/Nijushi no hitomi) (1954)
- Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Hideko Takamine, Chishu Ryu - An elegiac triumph of nostalgia for youth and wartime humanism, this cherished landmark of Japanese cinema gracefully chronicles the 20–years…
Uwasa no onna (Her Mother's Profession, The Woman in the Rumour) (1954)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiko Kuga - Dir. Mizoguchi's longtime muse, Kinuyo Tanaka, plays the madame of a geisha house who falls prey to rumour when both herself and her daughter become…
Victoria in Dover (The Story of Vickie) (1954)- Dir. Ernst Marischka
Feat. Romy Schneider, Adrian Hoven - A prequel of sorts to the SISSI trilogy lovingly details the formative romance between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Romy Schneider features…
Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) (1953)- Dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
Feat. Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata - Tragic story of unrequited love set during the Heiji Rebellion in 1159, where a samurai warrior falls in love with a married…
I Vitelloni (1953)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi - This neo–realist Fellini combines humour and pathos for a truthful study of aimless youths either ill–equipped or unwilling to embrace…
Life of Oharu (1953)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshiro Mifune - The prolific, though rarely seen dir. Mizoguchi came to attention with this chronicled downfall of a court–concubine in 17th century Japan,…
Madame De... (Earrings Of Madame De..., The) (1953)- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Charles Boyer - Widely considered one of the dir.'s peak achievements, this gracefully and ironically traces a doomed menage–a–trois in 18th century…
Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas Afton) (1953)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ake Gronberg - This grim flipside to Fellini’s loony, carnivalesque films powerfully relays the degradation of several circus performers at the end of their…
Tokyo Story (1953)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara - The master of Japanese cinema, this is Ozu's masterpiece. An emotional tour–de–force is drawn from an elderly couple's ill–fated…
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka - Stories by the 18th century writer Akinari Ueda are woven into an odyssey of civil–war misfortune, in which two peasant–potters and their…
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