El Almuerzo Meshi（めし） Martes 25 De Julio 19:30 Jueves 27 De Julio 17

El almuerzo Meshi（めし）

Martes 25 de julio 19:30 Jueves 27 de julio 17:30

B & W / Standard / 1951 / 97 min. / Toho

Directed by: Naruse Mikio CAST: Screenplay by: Ide Toshiro, Tanaka Sumie Okamoto Hatsunosuke: Uehara Ken Photography by: Tamai Masao Michiyo, his wife: Hara Setsuko Art Direction by: Chuko Satoru Satoko, his niece: Shimazaki Yukiko Music by: Hayasaka Fumio Murata Mitsuko: Sugi Yoko Producer: Fujimoto Sanezumi Matsu, her mother: Sugimura Haruko Based on a novel by: Hayashi Fumiko Tomiyasu Seiko: Kazami Akiko Taniguchi Shige: Urabe Kumeko Yoshitaro, her son: Ooizumi Akira SETTING: Osaka, Tokyo, present-days Takenaka Kazuo, Michiyo's cousin: Nihon'yanagi Hiroshi SYNOPSIS: OKAMOTO HATSUNOSUKE and his wife, MICHIYO, have moved from Tokyo to a small house in a modest neighborhood in Osaka. They married for love, but their romance has faded and they are approaching middle age. MICHIYO has grown increasingly dissatisfied with her life since she has no children to care for. HATSUNOSUKE works for a securities firm, but the company is so small that he has no real chance for promotion. As a result of these frustrations, MICHIYO nags HATSUNOSUKE while he remains aloof in an effort to avoid a serious confrontation. When HATSUNOSUKE's niece, SATOKO, runs away from her home in Tokyo and arrives at their doorstep, real problems arise. HATSUNOSUKE is in seventh heaven as he shows his beautiful young niece around Osaka. MICHIYO 1 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse stays home and irons the laundry while her husband and SATOKO frequent the local taverns. One day, a new pair of shoes is stolen from the entrance to their house while MICHIYO is at a class reunion. HATSUNOSUKE and SATOKO were both home at the time, and MICHIYO's imagination begins to run wild when she sees a blanket spread out upstairs. MICHIYO reaches the breaking point when she finds out that SATOKO has been running around with a boy in the neighborhood. She reprimands SATOKO severely and decides it is time to take her back to Tokyo. MICHIYO makes up her mind to stay in Tokyo and look for a job rather than return home to HATSUNOSUKE and the unbearable atmosphere she left behind. However, when her cousin, TAKENAKA KAZUO, suggests they take a trip together, her thoughts turn to HATSUNOSUKE and she refuses KAZUO's advances. She finally realizes that she belongs with HATSUNOSUKE when she learns that KAZUO has started seeing SATOKO. HATSUNOSUKE comes to Tokyo and MICHIYO returns home with him. They resume their ordinary but familiar life in Osaka

NOTES: The film is based on the unfinished last work of the popular writer, HAYASHI FUMIKO. The producer, FUJIMOTO SANEZUMI, appointed IDE TOSHIRO and TANAKA SUMIE to complete the story as a screenplay. IDE's refined dramatic composition and TANAKA's precise description of a woman's inner feelings blend well with the director, NARUSE MIKIO's powerful psychological delineation. "A Married Life" is an excellent example of NARUSE's ability to reveal the poignancy which lies beneath the surface of everyday life. NARUSE emerged from a 16 year slump with the success of this film and went on to become Japan's most popular director of films for women. (Kinema Jumpo #2)

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La madre Okaasan（おかあさん）

Martes 26 de julio 19:30 Viernes 28 de julio 17:30

Mother / Okaasan おかあさん

B&W / Standard/ 1952 / 98min / Shin Toho

Director: Naruse Mikio Script: Mizuki Yoko Cast: Photography: Suzuki Hiroshi Fukuhara Masako: Tanaka Kinuyo Art Director: Kato Masatoshi Ryosaku, her husband: Mishima Masao Music: Saito Ichiro Toshiko, their first daughter: Kagawa Kyoko Producer: Nagashima Ichiro Hisako, their second daughter: Enami Keiko Susumu, their son: Katayama Akihiko Setting: Tokyo in the immediate post- Kurihara Noriko, Masako's sister: Nakakita Chieko war period. Tetsuo, her son: Ito Takashi Kimura Shokichi: Kato Daisuke Hirai Shinjiro: Okada Eiji Synopsis: The Fukuhara family is working hard to recover after the destruction of WW II. Trying to rebuild their old dry cleaning business, the father, Ryosaku, works as a factory guard, the mother, Masako, sells candies at an outdoor stall, and even the eldest daughter, Toshiko, joins in, vending candies and ice cream on the street. But life is just as difficult even after they reopen their cleaning business. The eldest son, Susumu, suffering from tuberculosis, flees his treatment clinic to see his mother and dies soon afterwards. Ryosaku collapses from overwork and has to hire an old associate, Kimura, to help out. 3 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse

Ryosaku remains in bed while his daughters Toshiko and Hisako go to the local festival with their cousin Tetsuo, who is in the Fukuhara's care while his mother Noriko trains to be a hairdresser. Refusing to go to the hospital for lack of funds, however, Ryosake soon dies and Masako finds herself now in charge of both the famliy and the business. Her relatives, themselves childless, offer to help by adopting Hisako. Feeling that it might be one of their last chances together, Toshiko takes Hisako and Tetsuo on a picnic with her boyfriend Shinjiro, but is disturbed when he tells her of rumors making insinuations about her mother and Kimura. The rumors are false, but Masako often does rely on Kimura for his cleaning skills and tact in dealing with customers. After a final family outing, Hisako leaves the Fukuhara family. Kimura, with plans for his own business, also bids his farewell. With Tetsuo's mother passing her licensing exam and talk of Toshiko marrying Shinjiro already in the air, Masako may soon find herself alone. She soon hires an apprentice, but Toshiko, concerned for her mother who worked so hard for her children, wonders if she is really happy.

Notes: Loosely based on a collection of essays by grade school students about their mothers, Mother focuses on the image of one mother and her family attempting to recover from the destruction of WW II. While verging on the sentimental, Naruse's direction is remarkably restrained compared to the tear-jerker "mother pictures" made at the time. Working from the script by Mizuki Yoko, Japan's top woman screenwriter, he elides the potentially more dramatic events - such as the death scenes - so as to draw out a more episodic, slice-of-life portrait of an average Japanese mother and the struggles she must face in the postwar era.

okaasan© Toho. Co., Lt 4 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse

El relámpago Inazuma（稲妻）

Jueves 27 de julio 20:00 Martes 1 de agosto 17:30

Lightning / INAZUMA 稲妻

B& W / Standard / 1952 / 87 min / Daiei (Tokyo) CAST: Directed by: Naruse Mikio Kiyoko (3rd daughter): Takamine Hideko Screenplay by: Tanaka Sumie Osei (mother): Urabe Kumeko Photography: Mine Shigeyoshi Mitsuko (2nd daughter): Miura Mitsuko Art Director: Naka Mikio Nuiko (3rd daughter): Murata Chieko Music: Saito Ichiro Kasuke (son): Maruyama Osamu Based on a novel by: Hayashi Fumiko Tsunakichi: Ozawa Sakae Tagami Ritsu (mistress of Mitsuko's husband): Nakakita Chieko SETTING: Present days Ryuzo (Nuiko's husband): Uemura Kenjiro Kunimune Shuzo: Negami Jun LOCATION: Down town, Tokyo Tsubomi (Shuzo's younger sister): Kagawa Kyoko

SYNOPSIS: KIYOKO, a sightseeing bus tour guide, has two elder sisters NUIKO and MITSUKO, both married, and one elder brother KASUKE. They are half brother and sisters one another from the same mother. One day, NUIKO and her husband introduce a baker TSUNAKICHI to KIYOKO as her prospective husband, but their real intention is to take advantage of 5 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse

TSUNAKICHI who is good at money-making. KIYOKO knows that and cannot stand the idea. MITSUKO's husband dies suddenly. Upon his death, it is revealed that he has kept a mistress and even had a child. Learning about it, MITSUKO starts working at a love hotel TSUNAKICHI manages, to where NUIKO invites herself to move in with TSUNAKICHI, behaving as if she were his wife. On the other hand, RYUZO, NUIKO's shiftless husband, comes to stay with KIYOKO and Mother. TSUNAKICHI makes a pass at KIYOKO, but is refused. Out of frustration, he messes up a possible job opportunity for brother KASUKE. KIYOKO, no longer bearable, leaves home and lives alone in a boarding house, where she tastes the human life as it should be as she comes in contact with KUNIMUNE and his sister who live next door to her. MITSUKO opens a coffee shop with the insurance money she received upon her husband's death, and TSUNAKICHI frequents there and acts as if he were her husband. OSEI, Mother, visits with KIYOKO one night and tells her that MITSUKO has vanished due to the eternal triangle among MITSUKO, NUIKO and TSUNAKICHI. KIYOKO comforts her and hands her the precious hoard of money she has saved.

NOTES: Authoress HAYASHI FUMIKO fondly wrote about the life of people living in the downtown area of Tokyo, and director NARUSE MIKIO made many of her stories into motion pictures and established his own fixed style. This particular film is one of his such films. The mother is sluttish as the fathers of her son and three daughters are all different men, but she herself does not think it slatternly. Instead, she remembers each man who fathered her children with fond memories. Living with such optimistic and good-natured mother are the dull and energyless son, the self-centered and loose eldest daughter, the dependant second daughter and the third daughter who, by contract, makes efforts willingly to be independent and considers about her future seriously. The helplessness of the helpless family seen through the eyes of the third daughter is depicted so skillfully and realistically in their everyday life that the film gives familiar feelings instead of dumb-founded astonishment. Dirt-stained life of those people and their manners and customs are brilliantly depicted by director NARUSE. (Kinema-Junpo: #2)

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Hermano mayor, hermana menor Ani imoto（兄妹）

Viernes 28 de julio 20:00 Miércoles 2 de agosto 17:30

Ino and Mon / Older Brother, Younger Sister / Ani imoto あにいもうと

B & W/ Standard/ 1953 / 93 min / Daiei (Tokyo)

Cast: Director: Naruse Mikio Script: Mizuki Yoko Mon: Kyo Machiko Based on the novel by: Muroo Saisei Inokichi: Mori Masayuki Photography: Mine Shigeyoshi San: Kuga Yoshiko Art Director: Naka Mikio Akaza, their father: Yamamoto Reizaburo Music: Saito Ichiro Riki, his wife: Urabe Kumeko Planning: Miura Nobuo Taiichi: Hori Yuji Obata: Funakoshi Eiji Setting: Outskirts of Tokyo in the 1950s.

Synopsis: Akaza, who used to head the construction of dikes along the river, has fallen on hard times since the government took over the operation. His family lives off the meager earnings his wife makes selling soda and flavored ice. To make matters worse, his eldest daughter Mon has returned from working in the city pregnant after an affair with a college student. It is 7 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse only the eldest brother, Inokichi, however, a skilled stonemason who loves to drink and fight, who attacks her for her actions, abusing her to the same degree he used to be kind to her. After a big fight, Mon packs up and leaves. Mon's pregnancy also creates problems for the youngest daughter San, who is now rejected as a prospective bride by the parents of the man she loves, Taiichi. Taiichi begs her to elope with him, but San refuses, telling Taiichi he should have the courage to face up to his parents. But as an adopted son, he gives in to his parents wishes and marries the woman they select for him. The next summer, Obata, the college student who got Mon pregnant, arrives at the house to apologize. Akaza's wife treats him reverentially, as per his social status, so again it is only Inokichi who attacks him, beating him up on the way back to the station for sullying his prized younger sister. Soon thereafter, Mon, reduced to working in a questionable profession, returns having lost the child. She settles in as if nothing had happned but soon gets into an argument with Inokichi when he reveals he beat up her former lover. The next day Mon and San leave home.

Notes: The Muroo Saisei novel Older Brother, Younger Sister (Ani imoto) has been made into a film three times, Naruse Mikio's version being the second one after Kimura Sotoji's 1936 version. Naruse and his scriptwriter, Mizuki Yoko, update the story to the 1950s and build up San's character to emphasize the oppositions between the old and the new, the country and the city. Yet while the modern, liberated San differs significantly from her more old fashioned sister, both reveal the independent determination in the face of social restriction of a Naruse heroine. As with many of Naruse's films, the acting takes center stage with spledid performances by Kyo Machiko, Mori Masayuki, and Yamamoto Reizaburo as the father.

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Crisantemos tardíos Bangiku（晩菊）

Sábado 29 de julio 17:30 Domingo 30 de julio 20:00

The Fading Grace / BANGIKU 晩菊

B & W / Standard / 1954 / 101 min. / Toho CAST: Directed by: Naruse Mikio Kurahashi Kin: Sugimura Haruko Screenplay by: Ide Toshiro, Tanaka Sumie Nakada Nobu: Sawamura Sadako Photography by: Tamai Masao Koike Tamae: Hosokawa Chikako Art Direction by: Chuko Satoru Suzuki Tomi: Mochizuki Yuko Music by: Saito Ichiro Tabe (Kin's old lover): Uehara Ken Producer: Fujimoto Sanezumi Koike Kiyoshi (Tamae's son): Koizumi Hiroshi Based on a novel by: Hayashi Fumiko Suzuki Sachiko (Tom's daughter): Arima Ineko Seki (Kin's double suicide partner): Miake Bontaro Nakada Sentaro (Nobu's husband): Sawamura Sotaro SETTING: Tokyo, present-days Itaya(realtor): Kato Daisuke

SYNOPSIS: KIN, a former GEISHA, lives in a small tidy house with her mute maid, SHIZUKO. For KIN, moneymaking has become more important than love affairs, and she is investing very profitably in real estate with the help of ITAYA, a real estate broker. KIN often goes out to visit her former GEISHA friends, NOBU, TAMAE, and TOMI, who live in the neighborhood. She has been loaning them money, and often visits them in order to collect the interest without delay. NOBU runs a tiny bar with her husband. TAMAE is a maid at a third-rate hotel, and TOMI works as a cleaning lady and rents a room in TAMAE's house. Both TAMAE and TOMI are having problems with their children. TAMAE's son, 9 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse

KIYOSHI, receives spending money from EIKO, the mistress of another man. TAMAE feels she is out of touch with her son and is saddened by this. TOMI's daughter, SACHIKO, decides to marry a middle-aged man who frequents the mah-jong parlor where she works. TOMI feels rejected because SACHIKO didn't consult her before making the decision. KIN hears from NOBU that her old lover, SEKI, wants to see her. When she was young, she loved him so much that she could have committed suicide with him, but now she feels no affection for him at all. However, when she receives a letter from TABE with whom she had had a passionate love affair, saying he wants to see her, she dresses up and waits expectantly for him, but it turns out that he only wants to borrow money from her. She suddenly changes her attitude, and even burns the picture of TABE which she had kept for years. KIYOSHI gets a job in HOKKAIDO. SACHIKO packs her belongings while TOMI is away, and leaves on her honeymoon. That same night, TAMAE and TOMI while drinking to the health of their children, fall asleep together in bed. Beaming with pride, they see KIYOSHI off at UENO Station the next morning. ITAYA is sitting in front of KIN, while he makes calculations on an abacus. NOBU drops by with the news that SEKI has been arrested because of financial problems, but KIN does not feel any compassion for him. Instead, she goes out with ITAYA to look at some real estate. NOTES: "The Fading Grace" is based on the writings of HAYASHI FUMIKO. NARUSE MIKIO excels at making films from HAYASHI's novels, having previously directed "A Married Life" (MESHI), "Lightning" (INAZUMA), and "Wife" (TSUMA), all based on HAYASHI's works. The script was co-written by TANAKA SUMIE and IDE TOSHIRO by combining three of HAYASHI's short stories. The difficulty in combining the three short stories can be detected in the storyline. It is difficult to understand why the four major characters have remained friends even after they stopped working together. Contrary to other films directed by NARUSE, each episode in this film has a wealth of humor which contributes to making the whole story interesting. The four major roles are played by talented and experienced actresses, but NARUSE's skillful direction is ultimately responsible for delineating the subtle differences between the four personalities. (Kinema Jumpo #7

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La voz de la montaña Yamano oto (山の音)

Sábado 29 de julio 20：00 Jueves 3 de agosto 17:30

The Echo /YAMA NO OTO 山の音

B & W / Standard/ 1954 / 95 min / Toho

CAST: Directed by: Naruse Mikio Ogata Kikuko: Hara Setsuko Screenplay by: Mizuki Yoko Shuichi (her husband): Uehara Ken Photography: Tamai Masao Shingo (Shuichi's father): Yamamura So Art Director: Chuko Satoru Yasuko (Shingo's wife): Nagaoka Teruko Music: Saito Ichiro Tanizaki Eiko: Sugi Yoko Based on a novel by: Kawabata Yasunari Ikeda: Tanami Yatsuko Produced by: Fujimoto Sanezumi Aihara Fusako (Shingo's daughter): Nakakita Chieko SETTING: Present days Kinuko: Sumi Rieko LOCATION: Kamakura (a suburban city located about 50km from Tokyo) and Tokyo

SYNOPSIS: OGATA SHINGO, 62-year-old company executive, commutes to his office in Tokyo from Kamakura. His son SHUICHI also works at the same place. SHUICHI has been married for only a few years, but he is seeing another woman and often spends the night outside. SHINGO feels sorry for KIKUKO, SHUICHI's wife, who is patient of her husband's love affair. 11 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse

She reminds SHINGO of his secret old love, the deceased elder sister of his wife. His daughter FUSAKO comes home with her two children after a quarrel with her husband. When she sees SHINGO thoughtfully caring for daughter-in-law KIKUKO, she gets jealous and leaves home for Shinshu. While SHUICHI is gone there to bring her back, SHINGO asks TANIZAKI, a girl at the office, to take him to SHUICHI's girl friend KINUKO's place, but when TANIZAKI tells him that KINUKO is a war widow and shares a house with IKEDA, also a war widow in her thirties, and SHUKICHI lays violent hands on these women when he gets drunk, SHINGO decides not to visit KINUKO and passed by her house. FUSAKO, who returned from Shinshu, is ever jealous and nagging as before. KIKUKO gets pregnant with SHUICHI's child, but has an abortion as she is firmly determined not to give birth as long as her husband continues his love affair. Her abortion is her utmost protest to him. Upon learning of KIKUKO's abortion, SHINGO goes to see KINUKO, who has already ended relationship with SHUICHI although she is carrying his child. KIKUKO is now gone to her home. A little while later, SHINGO is called out by KIKUKO to meet her at the Shijuku Gyoen Park, where he is told her decision to divorce SHUICHI.

NOTES: In a family of a little over middle class, an elderly man sees in his daughter-in-law the resemblance of his one-sided lover of early days. Out of anger to his son's love affair, he intently sympathizes with her, and she too depends on her father-in-law. The film effectively depicts delicate psychology in such situation. While a cold war is going on between the young couple, warm happiness can never be attained. The film hints something like "a draft" passing through a crevice in an economically comfortable family. Such subject is the favorite and competent area of KAWABATA YASUNARI, the original writer who later received the Nobel Literary Prize, as well as of director NARUSE MIKIO. MIZUKI YOKO, the woman screenplay writer whom NARUSE often appoints preferably, adds delicate and womanly fine touch to the film. YAMAMURA SO, who portrays the father, delivers a superb performance. He received the Best Leading Actor's Award at the Mainichi Film concours. (Kinema-Junpo: #6)

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A la deriva Nagereru（流れる）

Domingo 30 de julio 15：00 Jueves 3 de agosto 20:00

. A House of geisha (Flowing) /NAGARERU 流れる

B & W / Standard / 1956 / 117 min / Toho

CAST: Directed by: Naruse Mikio Rika: Tanaka Kinuyo Screenplay by: Tanaka Sumie, Ide Toshiro Tsutayakko: Yamada Isuzu Photography: Tamai Masao Katsuyo (Tsutayakko's daughter): Takamine Hideko Art Director: Chuko Satoru Nanako: Okada Mariko Music: Saito Ichiro Someka: Sugimura Haruko Based on a novel by: Koda Aya Ohama: Kurishima Sumiko Produced by: Fujimoto Sanezumi Yoneko (Tsutayakko's younger sister): Nakakita Chieko SETTING: Present days Otoyo (Tsutayakko's elder sister): Kahara Natsuko LOCATION: Tokyo Namie: Izumi Chiyo

Nokogiriyama (Namie's uncle): Miyaguchi Seiji

SYNOPSIS: Through the introduction of an employment placement office, RIKA finds a job of a live-in maid at the Tsutanoya geisha house in the gay quarters. On the very first day of her work, she is sent for an errand to a dry-goods dealer, who complains to her about the Tsutanoya's delay in paying bills and does not welcome her. Upon returning to the house, she sees Madam TSUTAYAKKO being dunned by her step sister OTOYO for debts. Geisha SOMEYAKKO, who tells RIKA the house is 13 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse on a mortgage, is also in debt to OTOYO. OTOYO tries to find TSUTAYAKKO a patron who would pay her debts. However, TSUTAYAKKO does not like the idea. Several days later, NOKOGIRIYAMA, the uncle of Geisha NAMIE who left the house after having a quarrel, comes to the house, yelling a demand of explanation. At that time, TSUTAYAKKO is gone to a Kabuki theatre at the invitation of OTOYO. The reason for her invitation is in fact to have TSUTAYAKKO meet with a steel company owner as her prospective patron. Finding out OTOYO's intention, TSUTAYAKKO leaves the theatre alone before and makes OTOYO mad. Being helpless, TSUTAYAKKO asks Madam OHAMA, her former fellow geisha and now the proprietor of the Mizunoya, to act as an intermediary in order to make an apology to her ex-patron and beseech him to accomodate her with money. Although ¥100,000 is provided her, half of the sum is taken away by NOKOGIRIYAMA. Now, TSUTAYAKKO, her daughter KATSUYO and RIKA are the only remainders at the Tsutanoya. OHAMA suggests TSUTAYAKKO that the geisha house be changed to a snack restaurant. However, TSUTAYAKKO declines it.

NOTES: The original story which the film is based on is the very first novel written by KODA AYA (1904- ), the daughter of KODA ROHAN who was a great novelist of the Meiji period. She is known more as an essayist, but won the Japan Art Academy award for this novel. NARUSE MIKIO, acclaimed director in depicting female characters, fully displays his skills and talent in this picture treating the unusual inside of the geisha house seen through the eyes of a live-in maid. KURISHIMA SUMIKO, one of the most popular stars of the silent movie days, comes back to the screen after 18 years. The top stars of each era such as TANAKA KINUYO, YAMADA ISUZU, TAKAMINE HIDEO, SUGIMURA HARUKO and OKADA MARIKO make superb appearances as well. With All these top stars in the cast, the film itself becomes a segment of the history of Japanese female stars. (Kinema-Junpo: #8)

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Nubes flotantes Ukigumo（浮雲）

Domingo 30 de julio 17:30 Martes 1 de agosto 20:00

Floating Cloud / UKIGUMO 浮雲

B & W / Standard / 1955 / 124 min / Toho CAST: Koda Yukiko: Takamine Hideko Directed by: Naruse Mikio Tomioka Kenkichi: Mori Masayuki Screenplay by: Mizuki Yoko Osei: Okada Mariko Photography: Tamai Masao Kuniko (Kenkichi's wife): Nakakita Chieko Art Director: Chuko Satoru Iba Sugio: Yamagata Isao Music: Saito Ichiro Mukai Seikichi (Osei's husband): Kato Daisuke Based on a novel by: Hayashi Fumiko Produced by: Fujimoto Sanezumi SETTING: Latter 1940s - immediate postwar era LOCATION: French Indochina (presently Vietnam), Tokyo, Ikaho Hot Spring and Yakushima (an island off Kyushu)

SYNOPSIS: In 1943, in the middle of World War II, KODA YUKIKO goes to French Indochina under Japanese occupation (presently Vietnam) to work as a typist, where she meets an engineer TOMIOKA, a married man. They fall in love. When the war ends, he returns to Japan. She, believing his promise to divorce his wife in living in Tokyo and marry her, returns home a little later and visits him immediately. Nevertheless, he is vacillating. Bewildered at his such attitudes, she becomes a 15 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse mistress of a foreigner. However, when TOMIOKA comes to see her, they reconcile and take a trip together to Ikaho Hot Spring. At a bar there, he takes a fancy for OSEI, wife of the bar owner SEIKICHI. As a result, YUKIKO and TOMIOKA get in awkward situation and separate. Later, she realizes that she is pregnant with his child, and visits him at his new address, where he is living with OSEI. YUKIKO, disappointed and hopeless, goes to IBA with whom she had sexual relations before and borrows money, with which she has abortion. Once again, they start having relations. OSEI's husband, in a jealous rage, comes to Tokyo. Upon finding her at her nest with TOMIOKA, he kills her. TOMIOKA, down-and-out, appears before YUKIKO and tells her of his wife's death. YUKIKO reconciles with him again and follows him to the Yakushima Island in furthermost south where he has found a new job. In a humble company house, YUKIKO gets sick and dies after vomiting blood. Out side, the rain falls continuously. NOTES: Since winning wide acclaim on "Repast", his first filmization of HAYASHI FUMIKO's novel, NARUSE MIKIO had consecutively made pictures from her novels, and this is his fifth of such films. Two months after the novel was published in 1951, HAYASHI FUMIKO passed away. Thus, this became the last full-length novel. Worthy of her last long work, it is highly refined. Equivalently, NARUSE's filmization is superb. A man and a woman, absorbed in sweet dreams at the occupying area during the war, returns to chaotic Tokyo after the war. While facing harsh life, they repeat parting and reuniting, and at last they share life together on the southernmost island until the woman's death of illness. Among Japanese pictures, the film unprecedentedly goes into depth about psychological depiction of fatal man-woman relationship after their roaming love affairs. The film also shows a side view of harsh life during the immediate post-war era when no one could imagine Japan's such economic growth. Additionally, it is a monumental and glorifying picture to director NARUSE, screenplay writer MIZUKI YOKO and leading actress TAKAMINE HIDEKO. TAKAMINE HIDEKO deservedly won the Best Leading Actress Award of the Mainichi Film Concours. ( Kinema-Junpo: #1)

Diario de vagabunda Horoki（放浪記）

Miércoles 2 de agosto 20:00 Viernes 4 de agosto 17:00

Drifting / HOROKI 放浪記 CAST:

Hayashi Fumiko: Takamine Hideko B &W / Wide / 1962 / 123 min. / Takarazuka Eiga Kishi, her mother: Tanaka Kinuyo

Fukuchi Mitsugu, a poet: Takarada Akira Directed by: Naruse Mikio Date Haruhiko, a playwright: Nakaya Noboru Screenplay by: Ide Toshiro, Tanaka Sumie Yasuoka Nobuo, a printer: Kato Daisuke Photography by: Yasumoto Jun Shirasaka Goro, a poet: Ito Yunosuke Art Direction by: Chuko Satoru Uenoyama, a poet: Kato Takeshi Music by: Koseki Yuji Kensaku, Fumiko's father: Oda Masao Based on a novel by: Hayashi Fumiko and a play by: Kikuta Kazuo Fujiyama Takeshi, a painter: Kobayashi Keiju Producers: Fujimoto Sanezumi, Naruse Mikio, Teramoto Tadahiro Hinatsu Kyoko, a poet: Kusabue Mitsuko SETTING: Tokyo in the late 1920s Murano Yasuko, a novelist: Fumino Tomoko

SYNOPSIS: In the early SHOWA Period, HAYASHI FUMIKO and her mother support themselves as peddlers. Each day is a struggle for food and survival. Many nights they lay their bodies, on dirty tatami mats, exhausted from their work. A faithful printer who lives next door to them, YASUOKA NOBUO, feels sympathy for the unhappy girl, FUMIKO. She, however,

17 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse refuses NOBUO's kindness, for she still loves a man who has forsaken her. Having let her mother go back to her father's in KYUSHU, FUMIKO becomes a waitress in a cafe, "KIRIN." Even under these circumstances, she continues to put her heart enthusiastically into literature. Soon, she is discovered to have a talent for literature by a playwright, DATE HARUHIKO, who has happened to read her poem. He advises her to join in a group of a literary magazine. Then, FUMIKO decides to move into his apartment. One day, HARUHIKO's wife, HINATSU KYOKO, who was an actress and is now a poet, calls at his apartment without any warning. HARUHIKO, treats FUMIKO as if she were just a housemaid, and attempts to make an excuse to his wife. FUMIKO, enraged with his attitude, leaves HARUHIKO's and returns to work as a waitress. Eventually one of her poems gets published in a newspaper, and receives literary praises by writers such as FUKUCHI MITSUGU, SHIRASAKA GORO and UENOYAMA. Discovering a congenial spirit in FUKUCHI, FUMIKO marries him. Poverty has been always with her life even after the marriage, but she feels happy in living and writing with FUKUCHI on an orange box as a desk. A juvenile story written by FUMIKO is accepted by a publishing company. FUKUCHI's work gets turned down by every publisher to whom he submits them. Frustrated, FUKUCHI vents his anger on FUMIKO. One day, worrying about money, FUMIKO goes to YASUOKA's and ask for his help. FUKUCHI, however, misunderstands her friendship with YASUOKA as a love affair and becomes violent. FUMIKO leaves FUKUCHI, determined not to return, and begins to write again. Soon, her work, "Journal of a Vagabond" (HOROKI) is accepted in a women's magazine "JOSEI GEIJUTSU." Taking a giant step forward in the literary world, FUMIKO keeps on writing enthusiastically still under a dim-lit candle in her cheap apartment. It is at this time that she meets a painter, FUJIYAMA TAKESHI, and they become friends. Her writings becomes very popular, and she finally begins to enjoy her success and her life. NOTES: This film is based on an autobiographical novel, "Journal of a Vagabond" (HOROKI), written by HAYASHI FUMIKO (1904-1951). The author's life, from her childhood, had been comprised of poverty, tragedy and hard work. It was after her novel "HOROKI" was accepted in the literary world that she gained notoriety, and became a popular woman writer. This film is about her life and her poverty until "HOROKI" is published and she becomes known to the rest of the literary world. The original novel was made into film first by KIMURA SOTOJI in 1935, and then remade by HISAMATSU SEIJI in 1954. This film by NARUSE MIKIO is the third version of the same novel. NARUSE is the director who has made masterpieces based on HAYASHI's novels such as "A Married Life" (MESHI) in 1951 and "Floating Cloud" (UKIGUMO) in 1955. The heroine, FUMIKO, is portrayed by TAKAMINE HIDEKO who has starred in other NARUSE films, "A Married Life" and "Floating Cloud." Having seized the characteristics of the author of this autobiography, TAKAMINE plays the heroine with the spirit of HAYASHI FUMIKO.

Cuando una mujer sube la escalera Onnaga kaidanwo agarutoki（女が階段を上がる時）

Viernes 4 de agosto 20:00 Domingo 6 de agosto 17:30

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs / Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki 女が階段を上がる時

B&W/ Scope / 1960 / 86 min / Toho Cast: Director: Naruse Mikio Keiko: Takamine Hideko Script: Kikushima Ryuzo Fujisaki: Mori Masayuki Photography: Tamai Masao Junko, Keiko's hostess: Dan Reiko Art Director: Chuko Satoshi Komatsu, the bar manager: Nakadai Tatsuya Music: Mayuzumi Toshiro Sekine: Kato Daisuke Producer: Kikushima Ryuzo Goda: Nakamura Ganjiro Setting: Tokyo around 1960. Minobe: Ozawa Eitaro Yuri, a bar madame: Awaji Keiko Keiko's brother: Oda Masao Keiko's mother: Kahara Natsuko Synopsis: Keiko, widowed when her husband died in an accident, is the hired madam of a bar in Ginza's posh nightclub district. The bar owner, complaining of declining sales, urges her to sell her body to keep the big spending customers coming, but Keiko refuses, even if it means losing a client like Minobe, who has set up Yuri, one of Keiko's former hostesses, in her own bar. Feeling pressured, Keiko moves to another bar where she skillfully juggles men, becoming a lover to all, but a real lover 19 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse to none. One of her older customer's, Goda, offers to help her open her own bar, hinting that he expects certain favors in return. Keiko fends off his advances, but consults with the bar manager, Komatsu, about trying to open her own place through subscription. Just at that time, Yuri, hounded by her creditors, attempts to fake a suicide attempt in order to get them off her back but accidentally kills herself. Keiko attends her funeral and is shocked to see Minobe's representative press Yuri's mother for money on the day of the funeral. Infuriated by the callousness of men, Keiko insults Minobe when he makes a play for her and, in her rage, coughs up blood. She recuperates at her brother's house, but there only finds herself subject to more demands for money. Keiko's life seems to turn for the better when Sekine, an apparently kind businessman, asks her to marry him. Even though she does not love him, she consents only to find out he has a wife and kids and a history of fraudulent marriage proposals. Suffering a shock, Keiko gets drunk and throws herself in the arms of Fujisaki, the only man she really loves, and sleeps with him for the first time. Fujisaki, however, is moving to Osaka the very next day. After he says goodbye, leaving her some stock, Komatsu bursts into her apartment and scolds her for breaking her resolution never to sleep with a customer. He slaps her one moment, then asks her to marry him the next, but she refuses. She returns the stock to Fujisaki and, climbing the stairs to the bar once again, continues the charade that constitutes the life of a bar madam.

Notes: After filming several literary adaptations, Naruse Mikio returned with When a Woman Ascends the Stairs to the world he knew best, working from an original screenplay focusing on a woman condemned to be caught in the unending flow of a cruel, manipulative world. Yet while the modern world of the bar hostess he depicts is more dog-eat-dog than the world of the geisha featured in earlier Japanese melodrama, Naruse does not condemn it, but rather maintains a cool, distant perspective on the travails of women.

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Nubes disperas Midaregumo（乱れ雲）

Sábado 5 de agosto 17:30 Domingo 6 de agosto 20:00

TWO IN THE SHADOW / MIDARE GUMO 乱れ雲

B & W / Standard / 1967 / 107 min / Toho

Directed by: Naruse Mikio

The couple at the table by the window look happier than anybody else in the restaurant. Hiroshi Eda, who works at a governmental office, has got a promotion and his wife, Yumiko, has been pregnant. Their happiness seems to last forever, but actually it ends in that afternoon with a traffic accident which kills the husband. Shiro Mishima, the young man who has caused the accident, is a promising salaried-man of the Pacific Trading Company. The accident has been beyond his control, and he is proved to be not guilty. But he is transferred to a remote branch office in Aomori because he has run over one of the government people who are important to trading companies, though it has been totally accidental. He is engaged to the daughter of a director of the company, but it is cancelled. Then, he happens to meet Yumiko in the restaurant where she has last seen her husband alive. Shiro promises to give her fifteen thousand yen every month for compensation. The promised money is sent monthly from Shiro in Aomori. Some times he brings it to her himself.

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And each time the money refreshes her sorrow over her late husband. Without any place to live in Tokyo, Yumiko returns to her home town, Aomori, where Shiro lives. The accident has robbed the two people everything from Shiro, a hope for promotion, his fiancee and half his salary, and from Yumiko, her husband, her apartment. In Aomori. Yumiko visits Shiro and asks him to stop sending money, for she wants to forget the past. Shiro feels lonely. It is his only happy hours when he is seeing Yumiko. Yumiko's home in Aomori is a hotel. And parties are held from time to time, which Yumiko has to attend to entertain the customers. Shiro comes, too, to the hotel several times with his guests. Whenever she meets him, she pleads him to go away. As she wished, Shiro is going to be sent to Pakistan, where cholera and small pox prevail. The information of his new assignment makes her treat him kindly for the first time. They spend a day together in the rain at Towada Lake, and as a result, Shiro catches a bad cold. Yumiko is desperate to nurse him, who sleeps with his hand in hers. A few days before Shiro leaves for Pakistan, he visits Yumiko. Then, he confesses his love for her and begs her to go to the foreign country with him. No matter how good he is and how strongly her heart craves for him, he is the man who has killed her husband. She shouts almost unconsciously, "Go away!" Suddenly on the day of his departure, however, Yumiko's heart is occupied with the desire to go to him. She hurries to catch up with him before he leaves Towada Lake. She is going to start her life all over again Pakistan with Shiro. They are together now. But, on the lakeside road, they see a crushed car and a crying woman beside an ambulance. The traffic accident of her husband suddenly revives, and the shock they have received that day wraps them again with the same heavy grievousness.

Tormento Midareru（乱れる）

Sábado 5 de agosto 20:00 Domingo 6 de agosto 15:00

Yeaning / Midareru 乱れる

B&W / Scope / 1964 / 100min / Toho Cast: Director: Naruse Mikio Reiko: Takamine Hideo Script: Matsuyama Zenzo Morita Koji: Kayama Yuzo Photography: Yasumoto Jun Shizu, his mother: Mimasu Aiko Art Director: Chuko Satoshi Hisako, her daughter: Kusabue Mitsuko Music: Saito Ichiro Takako, her daughter: Shirakawa Yumi Producer: Fujimoto Sanezumi, Naruse Mikio Koji's lover: Hama Mie Setting: Shimizu (in Shizuoka) and Yamagata in the early 1960s. Hisako's husband: Kitamura Kazuo

Synopsis: Widowed during the war only after 6 months of marriage, Reiko almost single-handedly rebuilt her husband's family's liquor store after it was bombed. 18 years later, however, it and the other small businesses are losing business to a new supermarket down the street. As if that was not her only problem, Reiko must both fend off sisters-in-law who want to get rid of her by marrying her off as well as take care of a rambunctious younger brother-in-law, Koji. A college graduate, Koji quit his job soon after taking is and now spends his time gambling, drinking, and getting into fights. Still, he has deep respect for Reiko, so when he suggests to the family they use their land to build their own supermarket, he insists Reiko be made 23 Del 25 de julio al 6 de agosto 2017 en Cineteca Nacional Retrospectiva de Mikio Naruse one of the directors. His sister Hisako's husband objects, however, so the plan goes nowhere. When Reiko finds out about an affair Koji has been having with a less than exemplary woman, she confronts him about it. To her shock, Koji responds by saying that the only woman he really loves is Reiko herself. Worried about what others would think, Reiko rejects Koji, who is 12 years her junior. As if to prove himself to her, Koji takes over when the store's delivery boy quits and begins working deligently. Reiko, however, finds the situation stifling, so she suddenly declares to the family that she is leaving for home, lying that she has a lover there. Disbelieving her story, Koji accompanies her on the trip home against her will. Touched by his sincerity, Reiko admits she is happy he loves her, but when Koji tries to kiss her in their room at an inn, she violently pushes him away. Koji storms out and gets roaring drunk. Reiko rises in the morning and is set to leave when she hears a commotion in the street: someone had fallen off a cliff during the night. Rushing outside, Reiko is stunned by the sight of Koji's body being carried away on a stretcher.

Notes: Stories centered on the travails of a daughter-in-law oppressed by her husband's family were central to Japanese melodrama, especially with the coming of TV. Naruse Mikio, however, working from a script by Matsuyama Zenzo, Takamine Hideko's husband, produces a film that is more cool in its observation of the psychological dynamics of its female characters, further upsetting the conventional moral structure by introducing the problem of love between the daughter-in-law and her husband's brother. Kayama Yuzo, known for his light, romantic leading roles, is featured here in a rare serious role.

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