1948 · drama · discrimination · burakumin
Apostasy
Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita1h 39m1948
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Our read: Apostasy (1948) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · discrimination · burakumin entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / discrimination, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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