Directed by Somai Shinji. With Nakai Kiichi, Sakurada Junko, Tabata Tomoko
Japan 1993, DCP, color, 125 min.
Japanese with English subtitles
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Among the most emotionally charged of Somai Shinji’s films about youth is this tender portrait of a young only child trying to find her bearings in the wake of her parents’ divorce. Tabata Tomoko anchors the film and drives it breathlessly forward as a precocious young woman trying to be in many places at once, running against all odds from here to there as an emblem of the inevitable yet poignant distance between generations, despite the best of intentions. Recently discovered in the US through a series of new restorations and retrospectives, the films of Somai are recognized today as some of the touchstone works of Eighties and Nineties Japanese cinema, revered especially by Hamaguchi Ryusuke, who has often spoken of Somai’s influence upon his own filmmaking.

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Harvard Film Archive Hamaguchi Ryusuke, The World as Stage special film series co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute