Silent Naruse [videorecording] / directed by Mikio Naruse.
Flunky, work hard. Mikio Naruse's earliest available film, Flunky, work hard is the rare work by the director not to center around female characters. It is a charming, breezy short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | Japanese English |
| Donor: | With the compliments of the Japan Foundation. |
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection,
2011.
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| Series: | Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Silent Naruse.
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| Summary: | Flunky, work hard. Mikio Naruse's earliest available film, Flunky, work hard is the rare work by the director not to center around female characters. It is a charming, breezy short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son. No blood relation. A gripping early example of Mikio Naruse's cinematic boldness, featuring a screenplay by Ozu's famed collaborator Kogo Noda, an actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim the daughter she abandoned years before. Apart from you. In this gently devastating drama, a critical breakthrough for Naruse, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, with that of her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy. Every-night dreams. In the formally ravishing Every-night dreams, set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo, a single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son - until her long-lost husband returns. Street without end. Mikio Naruse's final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. 'Street without end' based on a novel by Komatsu Kitamura. Videodisc release of motion pictures originally released in 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1934. |
| Physical Description: | 3 DVDs (320 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; Dolby Digital stereo. |
| Production Credits: | Cinematography, Mitsuo Miura, Suketaro Inokai, and Komatsu Kitamura ; music, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz. |
| ISBN: | 9781604654004 1604654007 |