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Her Brother (おとうと, Otōto, lit. "Younger brother") is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is based on the novel Otōto by Aya Koda.
Consider the difference between. 1) his friends, her brother, and she. 2) she, her brother, and his friends. the references are reversed in #1 in terms of closeness to the focus, "she". #1 in understandable, but the listener must think more about the relationship than #2 which has a natural progression of relationship.
1:38:01. Directed by Kon Ichikawa • 1960 • Japan Kon Ichikawa's family drama focuses on the relationship between a pair of siblings in 1920's Japan.
Keiko Kishi plays the elder sister, striving to keep her younger brother (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) in line and out of trouble with little help from her emotionally cold and distant father (Masayuki Mori) and her ailing and religious stepmother (Kinuyo Tanaka).
This moving film, about the force of familial obligations in an authoritarian, patriarchal household during the Taisho period, is one of Ichikawa’s personal favorites, and possibly his greatest success in Japan.
There was no doubt that we had already seen the ironic - and sardonic - in A Full-Up Train but Her Brother was a film much more prepared to examine emotional bonds. Her Brother turned out to be a film of surprising beauty with memorable compositions that engage eye and sympathy.
The brother-sister bond. About Her Brother (おとうと/Otōto, 2010) opens with a dedication to Kon Ichikawa’s award-winning film of the same name Her Brother (おとうと/Otōto, 1960).
