You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
The Films of Keisuke Kinoshita
November 7 - 15, 2012
A mother’s ambition for her son forces him to break up with the one true love of his life in Kinoshita’s raving film on memory and desire.
Masao (Ozu regular Chishu Ryu) returns to his hometown after a successful career in business; the visit prompt memories of the time right before he left to study, when as a young man he fell in love with Tamiko, a beautiful, high-spirited young woman who also loved him but whom he was forbidden to marry as his family—and especially his mother—already had plans for him. Kinoshita brilliantly captures the flush of young love, played out against stunning landscapes—a love made all the more poignant as we know it will remain unrequited. Film scholar Donald Richie called it “one of the most nostalgically beautiful of Kinoshita’s films.”
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