Directed by Mikio Naruse
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Criterion Eclipse)
Naruse sets his story in a typical lower-class Japanese family. Dad is a "drunken loafer", Mom works as a geisha and Yoshio, their teenage son, hangs out with the wrong crowd. His sort of girlfriend, the lovely Sumiko
Mizukubo, lives far away in a fishing village but has similar problems. She tries to convince him to leave the street gang and take care of his mother, while she schemes for a way to save her sister. A fairly straightforward story, simply told, hampered by a weak ending.
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