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Running time. 111 minutes. Country. Japan. Language. Japanese. Dobu (どぶ, lit. The Ditch) is a 1954 Japanese drama film directed by Kaneto Shindō and starring Nobuko Otowa. [1] [2]
Clothes of Deception: Directed by Kôzaburô Yoshimura. With Machiko Kyô, Yasuko Fujita, Keiju Kobayashi, Emiko Yanagi. The story of two sisters in post-war Japan.
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- Drama
- Kôzaburô Yoshimura
- 1951-01-13
By contrasting the transitional vocation of a geisha in the feudal-mind permeated Kyoto with Kumicho’s younger sister, Taeko (Yasuko Fujita), who wears western dress and works in the local tourist office, the film illustrates how restraining the social conformity has been, and still is, imposing on women. Unlike the “women drama” directed ...
- Kōzaburō Yoshimura
- Daiei Film
Critics reviews. One of Yoshimura’s masterpieces, this searing account of female experience in post-war Kyoto dramatises the conflict between old and new through the experiences of two sisters, one a geisha in the Gion district, the other employed by the tourist board.
Oct 26, 2017 · Japan at a crossroads. East/West, past/future becomes a conflict between Kyoto and Tokyo in Yoshimura’s exploration of two women pulled in surprisingly contradictory directions in the new post-war world, Clothes of Deception (偽れる盛装, Itsuwareru Seiso). Working from a script by Kaneto Shindo, Yoshimura frames his tale as one of ...
Dobu (どぶ) is a 1954 Japanese film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo and starring Nobuko Otowa. [1] Plot. Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan (Jūkichi Uno). The two men try to ...
Japanese film scholar Alexander Jacoby describes Dobu as "a searing account of urban poverty". Though critical of its sentimentality, film historian Donald Richie pointed out that the "images had a strength that made one remember them", comparing Dobu to Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan. Notes and References. Web site: どぶ (Dobu ...
