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Chibusa yo eien nare

Chibusa yo eien nare

1955
Romance
Drama
1h 46m
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and the development of a serious illness: a breast cancer, which leads her to lose her breasts. In the last stage of her life she meets a young journalist arrived from Tokyo, an admirer of her work, who want to write a story on her life. Both live a secret love history. (imdb)
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Chibusa yo eien nare

1955
Romance
Drama
1h 46m
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Rated 21 Apr 2022
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Expertly acted and fraught with layers of cultural and social melodrama. A greater focus on Fumiko's tanka poetry - which the film sometimes tries to counterbalance in irony with her declining health - would have elevated it that much more. Tanaka's messaging is subtle but scathing: the more a woman tries to live authentically, the more everything that makes her a woman (her family, vocation, body, life) is stripped from her. The death scene resembles Cries and Whispers in the best, bleakest way

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