1997 · drama · family · rural
Suzaku
Directed by Naomi Kawase1h 35m1997
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the family.
Our read: Suzaku (1997) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, grounded drama · family · rural entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama / family, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- intimate
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