Sudden Rain
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| Directed by | Mikio Naruse |
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| Music by | Ichirō Saitō |
| Cinematography | Masao Tamai |
| Edited by | Eiji Ooi |
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Toho
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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90 minutes[1][2] |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Sudden Rain (驟雨 Shūu?) is a 1956 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on a play by Kunio Kishida.[1][2][3]
Contents
Plot
The marriage of Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki has gone stale, with both of them constantly arguing about what to do on a day off, or her cutting out cooking recipes from the newspaper before he finished reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, who pays a visit to complain about her own husband's inattentiveness, and their new neighbours, the Imasatos. When Ryōtarō's company announces the dismissal of some of their employees, a group of colleagues visits him at home and offers him to become their partner in a bar financed with their severance pay, with Fumiko serving the bar's guests. Ryōtarō throws them out and has an argument with Fumiko, declaring that he does not want his wife to take up a job. The couple contemplates a divorce and Ryōtarō's return to his hometown to work on his family's farm. The next morning, a children's balloon falls into their backyard, and Fumiko and Ryōtarō become engaged in a defiant ball throwing game, watched by the neighbours.
Cast
- Setsuko Hara as Fumiko Namiki
- Shūji Sano as Ryōtarō Namiki
- Kyōko Kagawa as Ayako
- Keiju Kobayashi as Mr. Imasato
- Akemi Negishi as Mrs. Imasato
- Chieko Nakakita as Mrs. Kurobayashi
- Daisuke Katō as Kawakami
Reception
Naruse biographer Catherine Russell called Sudden Rain an "extraordinarily bleak film", which nonetheless "offers a poetic treatment of a dismal situation".[4] Dan Sallitt saw the film's depiction of the marital conflict as "characteristically brutal and devastating" for Naruse, despite the "light-hearted formal play".[5]
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External links
- Articles with short description
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- 1956 films
- Japanese-language films
- Articles containing Japanese-language text
- 1956 comedy-drama films
- Japanese comedy-drama films
- Japanese black-and-white films
- 1950s Japanese-language films
- Japanese films based on plays
- Films directed by Mikio Naruse
- Toho films
- Films produced by Sanezumi Fujimoto
- Films scored by Ichirō Saitō
- 1950s Japanese films
