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Our Town (Yuzo Kawashima, Japan, 1956)

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Post date February 21, 2020
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Japanese cinema seems an inexhaustible treasure-trove. This is from the opening of Yuzo Kawashima´s poignant and funny Our Town (1956), currently on MUBI Screenshot 2020-02-21 at 17.46.13

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Spanish Canadian working in the UK. Former film journalist. Lecturer in Film Studies. Podcast with Michael Glass on cinema at https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/ and also a series of conversations with artists and intellectuals on their work at https://josearroyoinconversationwith.com/

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[…] The Balloon, Our Town, and. Burden of Love, Hungry Soul is also about Japanese society in the process of change. […]

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