Summary: A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist restrictions of the time, perhaps because it is also his most direct engagement with the culture of war. When a newsreel comes to Kameoka featuring a local man named Yoichi, it causes some excitement in the community and, of course, in Yoichi's own family.... (KG)

AKA: Natsukashi no kao

Genre: Short

Country: Japan

Directed By: Mikio Naruse

Starring: Mikio Naruse

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