#Terue Shigemori

[theoscarsproject]

Muddy River (1981). In post-War Japan, a boy from a noodle store-owning family befriends a neighboring boy living in poverty.

No country makes slice of life cinema like Japan, and Muddy River is the genre at its finest. The story of two little boys being awoken to issues of class, work and intimacy over the course of their brief friendship in post-war Japan is equal parts joyous and heartbreaking. The performances of all three of the film's children (one of the boy's having a sister) are pretty spectacular, and there's a tenderness to the cinematography and the handling of the subject matter that's pretty breathtaking. This is a really special film. 9/10.

#muddy river #1981 #Oscars 54 #Nom: Foreign Film #Kôhei Oguri #Teru Miyamoto #takako shigemori #japan #japanese #1940s #found family #sex worker #class #world war ii #9/10

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Gate of Flesh 1964

#Gate of Flesh #Nikkatsu #Jô Shishido #Kôji Wada #Yumiko Nogawa #Tomiko Ishii #Kayo Matsuo #Kuniko Kawanishi #Misako Tominaga #Isao Tamagawa #Chico Lourant #Eimei Esumi #Hiroshi Chô #Keisuke Noro #Mikiko Sakai #Terue Shigemori #Kôji Yashiro