Otôto
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
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"(1960) Her Brother/ Brother (In Japanese with English subtitles) DRAMA Adapted from the novel by Aya Kôda that has older sister by three years, Gen - Chan or Gen (Keiko Kishi) trying to hand her younger brother, Hekiro (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) an umbrella. He refuses and trots on ahead of her despite him being the only student who is not using an umbrella. The next scene has Gen being dragged by some men who work at the grocery store and are then pulled into a small isolated room, accused of theft. She would then pull out her receipts to show that she paid for all of her things. And they let her g..."
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To achieve the specific period look they intended for the film, director Kon Ichikawa and cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa were inspired by the use of color in Moby Dick (1956) (which was dye-transfer Technicolor added with a B/W layer) and experimented on a process that is now called "skip-bleaching". It was the first time in film history that this process, now a rather commonly-used one, was applied for a motion picture film.
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Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.