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With Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Akira Ishihama. A family in the city of Tokyo running a liquor store overcome their impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems.
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- Drama
- Masaki Kobayashi
- 1954-11-23
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky beams with charm and complex character interactions revealing a web of interconnected family troubles in a post-war Japan. While Kobayashi was only starting out he crafted family and class dramas as the key factor of his oeuvre and this is his strongest outing yet.
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- Shochiku
- Masaki Kobayashi
Jan 31, 2021 · SOMEWHERE BENEATH THE WIDE SKY (1954, aka KONO HIROI SORA NO DOKOKA NI) came near the end of Masaki Kobayashi’s formative period as a director — scripted by the sister of his mentor Keisuke Kinoshita (and scored by Kinoshita‘s brother), this drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city ...
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky. 1954 ‘この広い空のどこかに’ Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
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- Masaki Kobayashi
- Keiji Sada
Masaki Kobayashi's fluidly loose, naturalistic pacing and quaint lack of romance or sugarcoat with the Kawasaki middle-class, occasionally lifted by Chūji Kinoshita's tender score, actually give this a distinct neorealist feel.
Live action. Roger-Ebert-reviews in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)" In a medium without words, where the filmmakers believed that the camera captured the essence of characters through their faces, to see Falconetti in Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928) is to look into eyes that will never leave you."
