Kōzaburō Yoshimura's melodramas of midcentury women (Cinema Ritrovato 2024)
Yoshimura goes further than Sirk by refusing to suggest that Kiwa's determination to go her own way and not settle for a man who disappoints her is a tragedy.
I wasn't able to socialize much at Cinema Ritrovato, but when I did, it seemed like a consensus that the films of Kōzaburō Yoshimura constituted the discovery of the festival. Japanese cinema is a woeful blind spot of mine, a gap I've slowly been trying to fill in, so these movies weren't on my radar at all until a friend suggested I seek them out. (I'm…
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