Kabei
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kabei |
| Original title | Kabee |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 132 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yōji Yamada |
| script |
Yōji Yamada Emiko Hiramatsu |
| production |
Hiroshi Fukazawa Takashi Yajima |
| music | Isao Tomita |
| camera | Mutsuo Naganuma |
| cut | Iwao Ishii |
| occupation | |
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Kabei ( Japanese 母 べ え , Kābee ) is a Japanese feature film from 2008. The film is based on the autobiographical story by Teruyo Nogami.
action
The film is set in Tokyo in 1940 and tells the story of the Nogami family. Father Shigeru is a professor of German studies . His wife Kayo is a teacher, but she no longer does her job but takes care of her two daughters Hatsuko (12) and Teruyo (9). The children call their mother Kābei and their father Tōbei . Happy family life is suddenly destroyed when Shigeru is arrested at his family home on a cold winter night for his political beliefs. Kābei must now get through the daughters alone. She is supported by her husband Yamazaki's former student. Although he is clumsy and hard of hearing, he is a lovable young man whom his daughters will soon take to their hearts. In order to improve the family income, Kābei begins to work as a teacher again. She finds further support in her husband's sister Hisako. Hisako is an art student and introduces the young teruyo to drawing. Uncle Senkichi lives with the family for a short time. Senkichi is a simple man who cannot comprehend the intellectual life of the family. For him money is the most important thing in life. But Senkichi also felt the nationalist pressure of Japanese society when he publicly defended the western clothing of young women against traditionalists. Aunt Hisako has to leave the family and return to her hometown Hiroshima to take care of the sick old mother.
When war with the United States began on December 7, 1941 with the attack on Pearl Harbor , the family's situation worsened. The father eventually dies in prison and Yamazaki is drafted into the military despite his physical weaknesses. The war ended in 1945 with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki . Aunt Hisako dies a short time later as a result of the dropping and the family also receives news of Yamazaki's death, who died as a non-swimmer on a transport ship after being shot at by torpedoes.
Decades later, the grown daughters and their families gather at the deathbed of Kābei. Teruyo tries to calm her mother down by telling her about the imminent reunion with her dead husband and dead friends in another world. However, the mother replies that she would rather have her husband alive in this world.
background
The autobiographical story by Teruyo Nogami was published in Japan in the early 1980s. Teruyo Nogami has been a close associate of director Akira Kurosawa since the early 1950s . She co-wrote some of his scripts and was his assistant.
Publications
Kabei launched on January 26 in Japanese theaters and played on the first weekend about 1.47 million US dollars one. In its third week, the film grossed approximately $ 9.47 million.
The film was shown as part of the international competition for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2008 .
Reviews
“The story is a tragedy, but unlike Hollywood would tell us, Yoji Yamada stages it quietly, soulfully, bloodlessly. Every setting is lovingly arranged with the same dedication with which a Japanese garden is tended. Everything is flowing, no scene too many. And even if the film lasts for two hours, it doesn't seem cumbersome or uncomfortably epic. "
Web links
- Kabei in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trailer on kino-zeit.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/japan/?yr=2008&wk=4&p=.htm
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
