Reminiscence

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.

Director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Cast: Michiyo Kogure, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Kimura, Masayuki Mori, Haruko Sugimura, Masao Shimizu, Yuriko Hanabusa, Ichirō Sugai

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.