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Flavour Of Green Tea Over Rice, TheFlavour Of Green Tea Over Rice, The (Ochazuke no aji) (1952) Recommended
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kōji Tsuruta
Dir. Ozu once again explores the subtleties of Japanese family life, this time drawing our attention to the struggles of those in arranged marriages…
Forbidden GamesForbidden Games (Jeux Interdits) (1952) Aro Favourite
Dir. Rene Clement
Feat. Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Laurence Badie
After her parents are killed in an air raid during WWII, a small girl makes friends with a peasant boy, and the pair gradually come to terms with the…
IkiruIkiru (1952)
Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka
A patient meditation on life and death about a sullen yet dutiful office clerk of 30 years whose terminal illness compels him to rediscover his…
Le PlaisirLe Plaisir (House Of Pleasure) (1952)
Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon
Three tales by Guy de Maupassant go into this visually elegant treatise on the changing moods of love, youth and memory. The most successful…
Manina la Fille Sans VoileManina la Fille Sans Voile (The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter; The Girl in the Bikini) (1952)
Dir. Willy Rozier
Feat. Brigitte Bardot
An obscure, almost forgettable French frolic, save for the eye–catching debut of one Brigitte Bardot. Here, the future sex symbol plays a…
Summer with MonikaSummer with Monika (1952)
Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson
Early Bergman turns his lens on a pair of working class, teenage lovers. At first this rebellious holiday boat ride comes across as dreamy escapism…
White Sheik, TheWhite Sheik, The (Sceicco bianco, Lo) (1952)
Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina
Fellini’s against–the–grain feature debut coaxes the marital problems of a newlywed couple into a light, playful comedy that wasn’t…
Early SummerEarly Summer (Bakushû) (1951) Recommended
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima
Another of dir. Ozu's majestic domestic dramas, this time concerning the inner–family conflicts over the spinsterhood of a daughter (Hara) and…
Idiot, TheIdiot, The (Hakuchi) (1951) Recommended
Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori
Flawed but compelling adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel of human frailty, in which a madman and war criminal (Mori), is released from an…
RashomonRashomon (1951) Recommended
Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori
The film that brought Kurosawa to the attention of the world, and an Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film. Four wildly varying perspectives on a…

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