1949 · drama · period
My Love Has Been Burning
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi1h 24m1949
In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
Our read: My Love Has Been Burning (1949) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · period entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / period, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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