Carmen Comes Home
The Films of Keisuke Kinoshita
November 7 - 15, 2012
A successful Tokyo stripper decides to pay a visit to her country roots in Kinoshita’s delightful musical satire, Japan’s first color film and still a great favorite there.
The first color film ever shot in Japan, and still one of the most successful comedies ever made in the country, Carmen is a delightful musical satire about the fireworks set off when a local girl made good as a Tokyo stripper decides to pay a visit to the folks she left back home. Outraged by the clothes and looks of Carmen and her friend Akemi, the locals at first shun and ridicule the big-city girls, but when they put on a benefit to help support a local public school, both are instantly transformed into heroines. Hideo Takamine, who would later do such remarkable work for Mikio Naruse, shows herself to be equally adept at comedy, a commanding presence who can light up a stage with a musical number or the screen with her smile.
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