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A Fond Face from the Past

Overview

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. First of all his mother makes the newsreel (Nippon News, no. 14), which begins with the same marching music that opens his own film, followed by a curious baby judging context in Los Angeles featuring two hundred Japanese babies. Released in January 1941, almost a year before the pacific war begins, this “found footage” is indicative of Japanese imperialist ambitions beyond Asia long before Pearl Harbor.

RATING

5.90

DIRECTOR

Mikio Naruse

COUNTRIE

Japan

RELEASE DATE

1941

TIME

0h 34m

GENRE

Drama

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花井蘭子‌

花井蘭子

Osumi

Takashi Kodaka‌

Takashi Kodaka

馬野都留子‌

馬野都留子

Kinji Fujiwa‌

Kinji Fujiwa

深見泰三‌

深見泰三

Schoolteacher

小高まさる‌

小高まさる

Shin-chan

Sumihiko Hara‌

Sumihiko Hara

Ken-chan

Makoto Matsuzaki‌

Makoto Matsuzaki

Masa-chan

Fumio Okura‌

Fumio Okura

Masa-chan's father

Soji Watari‌

Soji Watari

Shige-san

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