Repast (film)
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Director Mikio Naruse Music director Fumio Hayasaka Language Japanese | 8/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writer Yasunari Kawabata , Toshiro Ide , Sumie Tanaka , Fumiko Hayashi Release date November 23, 1951 Screenplay Yasunari Kawabata, Sumie Tanaka, Toshiro Ide Cast Ken Uehara (Hatsunosuke Okamoto), Setsuko Hara (Michiyo Okamoto), Yukiko Shimazaki (Satoko Okamoto), Yôko Sugi (Mitsuko Murata, Michiyo's sister-in-law), Akiko Kazami (Seiko Tomiyasu), Haruko Sugimura (Matsu Murata, Michiyo's mother)Similar movies Interstellar , No Escape , Sex Tape , The Age of Adaline , Lymelife , Forrest Gump |
Repast (めし, Meshi) is a 1951 film by Mikio Naruse, starring Setsuko Hara. It is set in postwar Osaka and it is about a woman who has moved from Tokyo (her father is a well-known professor) to settle down with her husband. Her salaryman husband ignores her, and she is slowly worn down by domestic drudgery. Matters come to a head when her pretty niece comes to stay and the husband begins to flirt with her. "Naruse shows brilliantly how the husband and wife cling to respectability by a thread." Dissatisfied with his efforts to improve their household life, she returns to Tokyo for a time.
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Repast is the first of Naruse's adaptations from the novels by Fumiko Hayashi, a writer who specialised in stories of the downtrodden. "I am moved by the sadness to be found in the simple lives of people...", a quotation included at the beginning of the film, expresses the writer's preoccupations.
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Awards and nominations
2nd Blue Ribbon Awards
References
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