Mizu de kakareta monogatari (1965)

Réalisateur:

Yoshishige Yoshida

Scénaristes:

Yoshio Ishido (writer)
Yojiro Ishizaka (novel)

Date de sortie:

23 novembre 1965 (Japan)

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Avis des utilisateurs:

Beautiful, Complex, Japanese New Wave Melodrama

Ensemble

Mariko Okada	...	Shizuka Matsutani
Ruriko Asaoka	...	Yumiko Hashimoto
Yasunori Irikawa	...	Shizuo Matsutani
Isao Yamagata	...	Denzo Hashimoto
Shin Kishida	...	Takao Matsutani
Keiko Yumi	...	Geisha
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Masakazu Kuwayama	...	Yamazaki
Fudeko Tanaka	...	Old woman

Autre(s) titre(s):

A Story Written with Water

Durée:

Japan:120 min

Pays:

Japan

Langue:

Japonais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Société:

Chunichi Eigasha

Beautiful, Complex, Japanese New Wave Melodrama

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Very much a "new wave" melodrama, there are strong feminist and Oedipal overtones in this. The mother is played by the director's wife, Mariko Okado (who some may know from her roles in Ozu films). Written by Ishizaka Yojiro, a very popular Japanese author who became well known with the "new Japan" through his serial novel, "Blue Mountain Range" (which of his novels this film is based on, and whether it's available translated into English, I have little idea). The story is very simple, in that you're told that a mother and son have a strong, almost sexual, bond through moments present and past. The father of the past (who has died of Tuberculosis, revealed shockingly), the mother's current liaison, and the son's wife all re-enforce roles of sexual inadequacy with the two main characters (Mother, Shizuko, and son, Shizuo). Time is blended together, and the film ends up being an incredibly interesting melodrama with much of the (Japanese new wave staple) political put on backburner. A subplot involving the son's lack of sexual interest in his wife, and his mother's lack of sexual fulfillment in her lover (husband to be, I'm not sure) adds to the development of the incest tone. Highly recommended (seen without subtitles though, it's available in R2 Japan DVD, NTSC format, from Geneon).

Steven