Meshi (1951)

Note Générale:

8,1/10   

Réalisateur:

Mikio Naruse

Scénaristes:

Fumiko Hayashi (novel)
Yasunari Kawabata (scenario supervisor)

Date de sortie:

21 septembre 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Drame

Intrigue:

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Plot Keywords:

Marriage | One Word Title | Meal | Based On Novel

Récompenses:

9 wins

Avis des utilisateurs:

I left the theater feeling elated

Ensemble

Ken Uehara	...	Hatsunosuke Okamoto
Setsuko Hara	...	Michiyo Okamoto
Yukiko Shimazaki	...	Satoko Okamoto
Yôko Sugi	...	Mitsuko Murata, Michiyo's sister-in-law
Akiko Kazami	...	Seiko Tomiyasu
Haruko Sugimura	...	Matsu Murata, Michiyo's mother
Ranko Hanai	...	Koyoshi Dohya
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi	...	Kazuo Takenaka
Keiju Kobayashi	...	Shinzo Murata, Michiyo's brother
Akira Oizumi
Ichirô Shimizu
Haruo Tanaka
Sô Yamamura
Chieko Nakakita	...	Keiko Yamakita
Sayuri Tanima

Autre(s) titre(s):

A Married Life (USA) (festival title)
Repast

Durée:

97 min

Pays:

Japan

Langue:

Japonais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Rapport de forme:

1,37 : 1

Son:

Mono

Lieux de tournage:

Osaka, Japan

Société:

Toho Company

I left the theater feeling elated

Repast is the first of many films by Mikio Naruse to be based on the stories of Fumiko Hayashi, in this case on Hayashi's last unfinished novel. Repast is a family drama set in Osaka and Tokyo shortly after the end of World War II. Economic circumstances make life difficult for Michiyo, an Osaka housewife played by Ozu regular Setsuko Hara in an exceptionally nuanced performance. She has been married for five years and the dream of a better life has faded. Her husband Hatsunosuke (Ken Uehara) has a low paying job and her life consists only of the repetitive chores of cleaning, washing, and cooking with no promise of a better future, a fact that she draws constant attention to.

Michiyo is at first welcoming when Hatsunosuke's niece Satoko (Yukiko Shimazaki) comes to visit but soon becomes annoyed and jealous when her husband takes her on a tour of Osaka and pays an inordinate amount of attention to her charms. When her dissatisfaction becomes crystallized, she decides to return to Tokyo to visit her mother (Haruko Sugimura). She is torn between wanting to find a job and remaining separated or returning to her husband to continue with the struggle. She writes a letter to Hatsunosuke ostensibly to say she will not return but it is never mailed. The way her ambivalence is resolved will cause some consternation for modern day women's rights advocates, but seems appropriate under the circumstances and I left the theater feeling elated.