JAPAN · 1960

Evening Stream

Mikio Naruse
Japanese Golden Age unrequited love intergenerational conflict trauma and displacement class and labor emotional paralysis
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Synopsis

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'.

Year1960
CountryJapan
DirectorMikio Naruse
Evening Stream poster

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