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Flowing
Why this pick
Naruse again observes women negotiating dwindling security and old ties with an unblinking, quietly devastating social precision akin to Late Chrysanthemums.
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MOVIE1954 1h 41m JPN
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Why this pick
Its bar hostess faces money, aging, and emotional compromise with the same restrained intensity and clear-eyed attention to women’s economic vulnerability.
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Floating Clouds
Why this pick
A bruising, unsentimental portrait of a woman caught in a damaging attachment, rendered with Naruse’s characteristic economy and melancholy urban atmosphere.
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The Insect Woman
Why this pick
For the tougher edge of Late Chrysanthemums: a woman’s survival across decades is treated as social struggle rather than sentimental uplift.
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Yearning
Why this pick
A reserved widow’s practical life and forbidden feelings create the same quiet pressure between financial necessity, social expectation, and private longing.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Kin, the first of the geisha, is consumed by the idea of wealth. As a moneylender, she is an embittered businesswoman who is insistent upon being repaid by her former geisha sisters, Tamae and Tomi. She is the love interest of a former soldier in Manchuria, Seki, who was sent to jail after trying to commit suicide with her many years ago. He returns to try to borrow money from her, but is quickly turned away. In the end, he is sent back to jail for a money-related crime. Kin then becomes excited when she hears that Tabe, her former patron and lover, is returning. However, she becomes furious after realizing that he does not love her, but rather just wants to borrow her money as well. She kicks him out and burns his photograph to erase his memory. In the end, she leaves the city on a search for property to buy.