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Moe no suzaku (1997)
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Naomi Kawase (writer)
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1 November 1997 (Japan)
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Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko...
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Kawase Naomi films human emotions in a village near mountains
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(Credited cast)| Kotaro Shibata | ... | Eisuke | |
| Yasuyo Kamimura | ... | Yasuyo | |
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| Sachiko Izumi | ... | Sachiko | |
| Jun Kunimura | ... | Kozo | |
| Machiko Ono | ... | Michiru | |
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95 min
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It is said that a fundamental human activity such as film viewing is essentially an individual experience as there are some films which have to be appreciated by being boisterous.Moe No Suzaku is an offbeat Japanese film that needs to be appreciated in silence.As Kawase Naomi hails from a documentary film background,one can sense a certain hint of documentary film culture in her film especially in the manner how faces of the protagonists have been filmed to achieve a palpable confusion of sentiments.The same thing can be said as the entire film takes place in a remote mountainous village situated in rural Japan. Although this film is largely autobiographical in nature adequate narrative sequences have been added by Naomi Kawase to make it inventive.She shows how ancient traditions have still not disappeared from Japanese villages.We get a chance to see that people can remain happy even by living in coexistence with nature in a small village.Moe No Suzaku would also appeal to many people as a tranquil love story of people who remain unaffected by disturbing emotions.