1953 · drama
A Japanese Tragedy
Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita1h 56m1953
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Our read: A Japanese Tragedy (1953) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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- bleak
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