Bangiku Late Chrysanthemums Mikio Naruse [videorecording]=

By:

Mikio Naruse

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Japanese Summary language: English Original language: Japanese Subtitle language: English Publication details: Japan Toho Company 1954Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) sound, B&W. 7 3⁄8 x 4 1⁄16 x 1 inUniform titles:

Late Chrysanthemums

LOC classification:

PN1997 .B364 1954

Summary: From case cover: Retired heisha Kin (Haruko Sugimura) has settled into a comfortable existence as a money-lender who extracts substancial interest payments even from her closest friends, Tamae (Chikako Hosokawa) and Nobu (Sadako Sawamura), both also retired Geisha. When Kin learns that her former lover Tabe (Ken Uehara) is in town, she musters up as much of her old glamour as she can, only to find that the main reason for his visit is to request a loan. Kin responds with characteristic coldness, refusing to help Tabe, but in the morning weeps as she burns the old photograph she'd kept of him. Tamae and Nobu, meanwhile, suffer over their grown children who continually disappoint them. This moving portrait of geisha in their declining years is based on three short stories by Naruse's favorite author, Fumiko Hayashi, and is one of the director's mature masterpieces.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Videocassette	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-A: DVD Cabinet A	PN1997 .B364 1954	Available		003144

From case cover:

Retired heisha Kin (Haruko Sugimura) has settled into a comfortable existence as a money-lender who extracts substancial interest payments even from her closest friends, Tamae (Chikako Hosokawa) and Nobu (Sadako Sawamura), both also retired Geisha. When Kin learns that her former lover Tabe (Ken Uehara) is in town, she musters up as much of her old glamour as she can, only to find that the main reason for his visit is to request a loan. Kin responds with characteristic coldness, refusing to help Tabe, but in the morning weeps as she burns the old photograph she'd kept of him. Tamae and Nobu, meanwhile, suffer over their grown children who continually disappoint them. This moving portrait of geisha in their declining years is based on three short stories by Naruse's favorite author, Fumiko Hayashi, and is one of the director's mature masterpieces.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; mono; NTSC; 1.37:1 as 4:3 fullscreen.

Japanese audio with English subtitles.

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