Sensou to seishun War and Youth (1991) Tadashi IMAI
TITLE: Sensou to seishun - War and Youth
DIRECTOR: Tadashi IMAI
COUNTRY: Japan
YEAR: 1991
RUNTIME: 01:49:29
GENRE: Drama, Romance, War, Tokyo Fire Bombing Memorial
LANGUAGE: Japanese
SUBTITLES: English srt (Extensively reworked)
CAST: Yûki Kudô, Yumiko Fujita, Hisashi Igawa, Keisuke Sano
SYNOPSIS/REVIEW:
"Now in his late 70s, Imai directed his final and most significant films, Senso to Seishin (War and Youth). In a prologue, a contemporary Japanese schoolgirl (played by actress Yuki Kudo) tries to discover facts about the war from her father, whose memories are too painful for him to share. Then she learns about her mute aunt's dead child, who was lost during the Allied firebombing of Tokyo in 1945. The film then shifts to tell the story of the aunt (also played by Kudo), and how she loses her husband and child in the chaos of the air raids. Imai used donations from air raid survivors to underwrite the film so he could make and distribute it without the control of major studios, thus capping his career with a thought-provoking, powerful film made completely independently. A few months after its international release, Imai died in Toyko.
The flashback parts of the film are decoloured (virtually black and white) except for the flashbacks of the firestorm. Imai did a great job of depicting the firestorm created by the incendiary bombing of Tokyo in 1945. The technique used by the US airforce of dropping different kinds of bombs in separate waves one following the other and both at low levels was very efficient. Read the quotes from Mark Selden's article below if you want more details.
This film was very personal for Imai. He lived through the time in Tokyo. But he remains objective and also emphasizes that Japan was not guiltless having perpetrated similar carnage on other countries. What impresses me most about Imai's directing here is that, though the subject matter is very distressing, the film overall manages to be bright, upbeat, respectful, and even hopeful. No small feat and a great offering from Tadashi Imai to end his career on.
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