Summer blossoms
| Movie | |
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| German title | Summer blossoms |
| Original title | 彼岸花 , higanbana |
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| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yasujirō Ozu |
| script |
Kōgo Noda , Yasujirō Ozu |
| production | The Takayama |
| music | Takanobu Saitō |
| camera | Yūharu Atsuta |
| cut | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
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Summer flowers ( Japanese 彼岸花 , Higanbana , dt. " Pink Red spider lily ") is a Japanese film from the year 1958 the director Yasujirō Ozu . The screenplay was written by Satomi Ton and the film won the Japanese Blue Ribbon Award in 1958.
action
The film begins with a wedding reception at which the important men of the film are introduced: the bride's father Toshihiko Kawai, his friend, a wealthy entrepreneur in Tokyo, Wataru Hirayama. After the party, Kawai, Hirayama and Heinosuke Horie sit together. Hirayama's daughter Setusko would now be married.
An old school friend, Shūkichi Mikami, visits Hirayama and asks him to help him fix his relationship with his daughter Fumiko, who has run away in an argument. Hirayama meets with her daughter: she complains that her father wants to force a marriage while she has fallen in love with a musician and wants to lead her own life. Friends Setsuko and Yukiko Sasaki also team up to trick their parents with their marriage plans.
One day, a young man, Masahiko Taniguchi, calls Hirayama's office and asks for his daughter Setsuko's hand, as he is being transferred to Hiroshima. Hirayama is very indignant that his daughter has made marriage plans on her own and confronts his daughter at home. He orders her not to leave the house for two or three days, not before she has given up on her nonsensical plans. Meanwhile, Hirayama tries to find out more about Taniguchi.
Setsuko approaches Hirayama and seeks advice. Her mother makes her marry someone she doesn't like. Hirayama then advises her to ignore her mother's request. She advises Hirayama that he should behave towards his daughter as he himself said and agree to her marriage.
Hirayama's wife, Kiyoko, tries in vain to change Hirayama's attitude and complains that he is inconsistent. His younger daughter Hisako is also on her sister's side, saying her father is too old-fashioned. When the couple refuses to give in either, Hirayama is bitter, but then decides to attend the wedding.
After the wedding celebration, Mikami confesses that he, too, agreed to his daughter's choice of choosing her partner himself. Hirayama, who had traveled to a class reunion in Nagoya and then came to Osaka, decides when visiting the Sasakis, at Yukiko's persuasion, to visit the newly wed couple. The film ends with a glance at the train heading for Hiroshima.
background
The film again contains all of the Ozu shots: the view of the corridors, the alley with the signs of the bars, and the "Luna" bar is a must. In the film, the dialect contrast between Kantō and Kansai is played out: the Sasakis speak Kansai-ben.
The memory of the war , which was often a topic for Ozu in the past, only comes up in one scene when the Hirayama and his wife are out for a walk in Hakone . She says they had nothing back then, but were closer together than ever again.
Ozu keeps up with the times: As is often the case, it's about the marriage of the daughters. In this film they are not married by their parents, but take their future into their own hands.
criticism
The lexicon of international film judges the film to be a "detailed, sophisticated psychological study of generational conflicts".
literature
- Buehrer, BB: Japanese Films . McFarlayl, 1990. ISBN 0-89950-458-2 .
- Bordwell, David: Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema . British Film Institute, 1988. ISBN 0-85170-159-0 .
Web links
- Summer flowers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Summer blossoms. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 20, 2017 .