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The Snow Flurry (1959)

“The Snow Flurry (1959)” may be one of the lesser known works among Keisuke Kinoshita’s filmography, but gives its audience ultimately satisfying experience. It experiments with a bold and complex flashback structure, which is firmly rooted in the emotional journey of the protagonists. The audience is guided through sometimes parallel, sometimes intersecting psychological paths of the disintegrating members of the family as if the cinematic lens has become an entity of flow of consciousness.

 
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Kinoshita’s Blu-Ray and DVD released

Let’s Toast the Young Lady (お嬢さん乾杯, 1949) To commemorate his 100th anniversary, Shochiku announced the release of Keisuke Kinoshita’s works on Blu-ray and DVD later this month. Blu-ray Twenty-Four Eyes (二十四の瞳, 1954) Carmen Comes Home (カルメン故郷に帰る, 1952) The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, 1958) DVD Twenty-Four Eyes (二十四の瞳, 1954) Carmen Comes Home (カルメン故郷に帰る, 1952) My First Love Affair (野菊のごとき君なりき, 1955) The Lighthouse (喜びも悲しみも幾歳月, 1957) The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, 1958) The River Fuefuki (笛吹川, 1960) Tragedy of Japan (日本の悲劇, 1953) The Garden of Women (女の園, 1954) Broken Drum (破れ太鼓, 1949) Let’s Toast the Young Lady (お嬢さん乾杯, 1949) The Army (陸軍, 1944) …

 
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This is part four of “Films of 1949” series (Part 1, 2 and 3). The Ikedas lost all the glitters and glamor they once had. A decade ago, they were the respectable clan of respectable society. The end of the war brought them a period of humiliation, disgrace and loss, enormous loss. The head of the family was thrown into jail, their properties were liquidated and prospect of regaining the past glory is dim. Their beautiful daughter, Kyoko, whom her parents and grandparents had envisioned bright future, and possibly a marriage with a handsome young man from a family of …

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