Yoru no kawa
An artistically and commercially successful kimono designer begins an affair with a married man. But when his wife dies, her reaction is not as expected.
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"At first I thought this was going to be the sort of movie I couldn't condone. It had a lot of front-loaded exposition which was considered fashionable in pre-1960s film. It also took me a while to accept the lead's performance - she was always smiling regardless of what was going on or what the interlocutor was saying. It seemed so fake. As for the performance, the tide for that turns and it comes to seem masterful when we see that theatrical East Asian femininity that stereotypically manifests as all smiles and giggles in almost all situations creates an impressive contrast when th..."
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This is the first long colour film in Japan.
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An artistically and commercially successful kimono designer begins an affair with a married man. But when his wife dies, her reaction is not as expected.