Saraba natsu no hikari / Farewell To The Summer Light (1968)
Title: Farewell To The Summer Light
Japanese Title: Saraba natsu no hikari
Country: Japan
Year: 1968
Genre: Drama, Experimental
Production: Gendai Eigasha
Runtime: 96 min.
Audio: Japanese
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Simultaneously one of Yoshida’s lightest works and one of his most consciously “arty.” The color palette here is much more visually appealing than the one in the cringe-worthy Escape From Japan and Yoshida trades in his usual trademark transgressive sex-filled drama in for something more romantic and poetic. The result is one of his most watchable films, a brisk 90 minutes, that somehow manages to come off as one of his most pretentious and stilted pieces to date. Ultimately, it works, but this is one of the few cases where Yoshida’s cast does little to help the cause. The setup here is a couple. They are both Japanese. She is married to a European, and is haunted by the Nagasaki bomb which killed her father. The two are in love. That’s all you need to know about the story. Its the staging of the thing that matters. Each scene lasts a minute or so and is a different location. They span much of Europe, the capitals of the Old Europe. The two walk past each other. Face each other. Face away. Each scene is based on one movement or stance, usually photographed from a distance. Many of these within the location and between locations use radical jump cuts, sometimes overlapping in time. That’s it. That’s the experiment. Space, vacuum, distance, passing.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Writers: Ryusei Hasegawa, Masahiro Yamada, Yoshishige Yoshida
Cast: Mariko Okada, Tadashi Yokouchi, Paul Beavais, Helene Soubielle
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