Moe no suzaku (1997)

Director:

Naomi Kawase

Writer:

Naomi Kawase (writer)

Release Date:

1 November 1997 (Japan)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko...

Plot Keywords:

Village | Japan | Mountain | Tunnel | Rural

Awards:

3 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Kotaro Shibata	...	Eisuke
Yasuyo Kamimura	...	Yasuyo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sachiko Izumi	...	Sachiko
Jun Kunimura	...	Kozo
Machiko Ono	...	Michiru

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Hong Kong:I

Company:

Bandai Visual Company

Kawase Naomi films human emotions in a village near mountains

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.