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FALLEN BLOSSOMS follows the inhabitants of a Kyoto geisha house as the civil war of the Meiji Restoration rages just outside their walls. Set completely inside the house, only female characters are seen on screen. AKA: FLOWERS HAV...
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"Described by Noel Burch as "one of the most remarkable community portraits ever filmed", this powerful debut feature made with glacial but passionate elegance by a director still almost unknown in the West would certainly fail the Bechtel Test - despite having an all-female cast - since men are the film's defining absence; a rumbling offscreen presence like the gunfire heard in the closing sequence which combines expressive use both of the camera and the soundtrack...."
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According to film theorist Noël Burch, this obscure prewar film is distinctive for three reasons: 1) the cast consists entirely of women: the only males in the world of the film exist only as offscreen voices; 2) the narrative is set entirely in a teahouse in the Gion quarter of Kyoto during two days in July 1864, just a few years before the fall of the shogunate, which ended the rule of the samurai class; and 3) with only a handful of exceptions, no two shots, in the over 350 total shots that comprise the film, are taken from an identical angle and distance. Thus each shot is a unique and unrepeated "set up," a procedure which, because of its difficulty, is unheard-of in Hollywood and elsewhere, even to the present day.
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FALLEN BLOSSOMS follows the inhabitants of a Kyoto geisha house as the civil war of the Meiji Restoration rages just outside their walls. Set completely inside the house, only female characters are seen on screen. AKA: FLOWERS HAV...