Mikio Naruse was one of the eminent masters of classical Japanese cinema who made 80+ films in a career stretching from the silent period to the 1960s. Though he made the most…
Tag: 1952
Kaneto Shindo’s Children of Hiroshima (Genbaku no ko, 1952), based on Arata Osada’s novel, was one of the first Japanese films to deal with the nuclear holocaust. On August 6, 1945, a…
Rene Clement’s Forbidden Games (‘Jeux interdits’, 1952) — based on writer Francois Boyer’s novel — is one of the greatest films ever made on grief, war, and loss of childhood innocence. Scaled…
How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death. How tragic, indeed! Akira Kurosawa’s thought-provoking commentary on life is such a powerful work…