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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Naruse again observes a woman negotiating love, money and dignity with the same unsentimental tenderness, restrained pacing, and quietly crushing awareness of limited choices.
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Why this pick
Its widowed heroine and forbidden attachment carry Floating Clouds’ ache of emotional dependence, social constraint, and feelings that remain powerful precisely because they are held in check.
03
Why this pick
A tougher, earthier portrait of a woman repeatedly exploited by men and circumstance, driven by the same postwar disillusionment and refusal to sentimentalize survival.
04
Why this pick
Mizoguchi’s flowing, mournful chronicle of a woman damaged by desire and social systems shares the tragic romantic weight and compassionate attention to female endurance.
05
Why this pick
Its long view of ordinary lives weathered by history offers a similarly melancholy Japanese visual sensibility, where private longing is inseparable from war’s aftermath.
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01 / THE STORY
The film follows Yukiko Koda, a woman who has just returned to Japan from French Indochina, where she has been working as a secretary. Yukiko seeks out Kengo, with whom she had an affair in Da Lat during the war. They renew their affair, but Kengo tells Yukiko he is unable to leave his wife. Brightly lit flashbacks of their time in Indochina contrast with the sombre tones of the film's present.
