A Hen in the Wind / Kaze no naka no mendori (1948)
Title: A Hen in the Wind
AKA: Kaze no naka no mendori
Year: 1948
Directed: Yasujiro Ozu
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1h 23m
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English.srt
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040505
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UCwPfgMBIk
Cast:
Kinuyo Tanaka: Tokiko Amamiya
Shûji Sano: huichi Amamiya
Chieko Murata: Akiko Ida
Chishu Ryu: Kazuichiro Satake
Hohi Aoki: Shoichi
Chiyoko Ayatani: Fusako Onada
Reiko Mizukami: Orie Noma
Takeshi Sakamoto: Hikozo Sakai
Eiko Takamatsu: Tsune
Plot / Synopsis
A Hen in the Wind is one of Yasujiro Ozu's most painful movies. It's also one of his best.
This Japanese master, a mysterious prince of the art of resignation, has been known in the West for a handful of 1950s movies dealing with the essential themes of time, loss and, specifically, sons and daughters leaving the nest of the family. The New York Film Festival is in the middle of showing every extant Ozu film, and the gaps that are being filled in are quite fascinating.
A Hen in the Wind was made in 1948, just a few years after World War Two. Ozu begins this film with shots of towering industrial buildings and shabby little shacks. Finding beauty amid the aftermath of war, searching out the poetry in ugliness, this is what Ozu is trying to do in this film, and much more.
Kinuyo Tanaka, arguably the greatest actress Japan has produced, plays a young mother waiting for her husband to come back from the war. Times are tough, and her small son takes ill. To pay for his medical care, she is forced to prostitute herself for one night.
Ozu punctuates her dilemma with shots of empty rooms that grow ever more desolate. He seems shy of this material, as if he wants to retreat from Tanaka's pain into visual abstractions. Perhaps, though, he is trying to support his heroine with these shots, too.
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