1953 · drama · family · siblings
Older Brother, Younger Sister
Directed by Mikio Naruse1h 26m1953
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.
Our read: Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · family · siblings entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / family, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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