After the harsh beauty of Women of the Night I decided to step back and show a film that is deceptively more civilized. Not considered one of Mizoguchi’s stronger efforts, The Lady of Musashino takes on a strong willed heroine and the change in middle class japan over the post war period in one suburb of Tokyo.
What at first might seem like Merchant/Ivory territory becomes a ruthlessly compassionate study of changing times and those left behind. A fascinating film.
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